The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-03-14
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COpv11ght, 1906, BY Charles ". H0oke
T had been a bad Saturday for
Billy Allenwood. Somebody hadn't
como 1ou,ntokpn thot dow Soma
Copyright, 1906. by Charles ". Hooke

L Z had been q bad Saturday for
Billy AAllenwood Somebody hadn't
I come downtown that day. Some
body else, a bookkeeping creature
| for the other, had no authority to ad-
vance money on uncompleted serial
stories. Billy made the rounds, but
there was no money anywhere, and
when he went to take Dorothy Vincent
to dinner he had only'$3 in his pocket.
Dorothy was an orphan and an heir
| ess. She received a check on the first
Of every month, but, though there are
| few characters so strong as not to be
affected by security and regularity Of
income, Dorothy remained a good DO.
| hemian and as reckless with money as
| you could wish your dearest friend to
be. She reveled in rich and dainty
fabrics, which she transformed by her
own art and labor into the most be-
witching garments. On this particular
evening she wore tenderly exquisite
! creation in a gray tone, and carried a
little gray purse which contained her
all, the sum Of 80 cents. This purse
was intrusted to Billy's care.
| A strange subject of discussion &C.
! cupied them at dinner and on the way
ito Dorothy's house. Billy had an op-
portunity to join with two other men
in starting magazine, of which be
was to be editor, but they stipulated
that he should contribute $1,000 to the
capital. Impossibility is not defined in
any dictionary SO adequately as by that
statement. Billy could not have raised
but Dorothy could raise dollars, and
she insisted that she should be per.
mitted to disturb her meager patri'
mony to the extent required and be-
come partner in the enterprise. She
would lend the money to Billy and go
shares with him. To him, however, her
little fortune was the only redeeming
feature of world otherwise i'll ordered
beyond the power Of language to de.
scribe. He knew what miseries she
thus escaped-few men knew better
than Billy-and he would sooner have
disturbed the law of gravitation which
holds us to the world than have dis.
lodged the anchor of Dorothy's safety
He was telling her so in very clio,
Quent language as they strolled along
when they were suddenly aware of a
furry in the throng and the quick
gathering of a crowd. A man had
fallen from the platform of a crowded
car and now sat on the curbstone
dazed and bleeding. It seemed that
there had been an attempt to pick his
pocket and that. the thief, detected
had pushed his intended victim to the
street. AS usual, the car had gone Oh
leaving only the most contradictory
rumors in it's wake.
/ The man was under middle age and
of very prosperous appearance, 8
gentleman evidently, for he showed
himself superior to his mishap, ever
though it had bereft him of a gooc
share Of his consciousness. Before any
one had raised hand to help him be
got upon his feet with a certain dig
nifty, though the dullness Of his eyes
showed that his wits were whirling
He found a cardcase. in his pocket
after somnambulous fumbling; gave 8
card to cabman, and when the door