The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-09-05
HIS DEVOTION

Jamie. the Office boy was CROWNS
mn II was not merely the long trous'
ors: II was the look in his eyes.
The sympathetic little stenographer'
as she extracted a hand mirror from
the middle drawer, CHANGED to lice
Jamie eating his luncheon sandWlch
behind the screen Something new III
his appearance caught her interest
She stoned patting the heavy brown
braid which she wears like a coronet
on her pretty head. and, walking over
took chair near him.
What Is It, Jame?" she asked, CON
fidentially.
What's WHAT" he temporized'
meeting her gaze
Then she knew that new star had
come into his sky and that his eyes
were shining with the reflection OF its
brightness
Its some girl" she asserted ana
smiled at him coaXingly The whole
office force confides in the stenogra-
pher. She has way.
IT'S the only girl" said the boy,
unabashed He was gazing abstract
eddy at his next sandwich.
Miss Wellner studied him. Jamie,
she said, ''once there was a king. He
offered a prize to the one of his sub
jects who should make the wisest re-
mark. SO all the wise men tried their
best, and got up a lot of profound
long-winded speeches. But at last
one man put five simple, short words
together. and the king thought his re-
mark was so wise that he gave him
the prize on the spot"
"What'd. e say?" jamie inquired,
with automatic politeness. His
thoughts were far off.
He said This, too, will pass
away"
jamie was listening now. The story
! had filtered through his dreams, and
the last sentence startled him.
Say that again, he demanded.
This too, will pass away. .
HIM" returned jamie. beginning
on his sandwich. Don't You fret"
When the stenographer came in
from luncheon the next day, she found
Jamie behind the screen again, still
with that look on his face
What's the filing in your sand.
wiches?" she asked. Green cheese
and rainbows?"
He smiled indulgently as she
dropped into chair near his corner.
Come, why don't you tell me her
name?' she began.
Don't know it myself, yet" he an.
swered, composedly. Only saw her
at show. But know fellow that
knows fellow that knows her"
A few days later he emerged from
behind the screen on tiptoe.
Want to see her handwriting?" he
whispered to the stenographer.
"A letter" she exclaimed, greatly
amused. Well Jamie, you certainly
are coming on"
Tisn't to Newell, | guess not!
It's what she wrote to fellow
know"
Then how did you get it?"
"Oh, he didn't want it. 1t throws
him down, you know He'd asked her
to go to a show. but she was going
with two others already. 'Twasn't her
fault"
Two others"
MY, yes She has to do that way.
She's popular. tell you"
But do the boys like that?"
like it! They take what they can
get They'd hang on to a window-sill
by their teeth any time just to look
at her. Say, I'm going to be intro
duced tonight. You wait"
The sympathetic stenographer w.nt
away for vacation next day. She
| had been devotng considerable
thought TO man who was-not like
Jamie. Now that she had decided
that he was not worth thinking about
she found herself needing change. rest
diversion. The firm that EMPLOYED
her appreciated her services and told
her to stay away until she was ready
to come back. After six weeks she
walked into the Office again, bright
and courageous.
N'N'] 'HliS Slse SeSUleu so different
to her that she was startled to find
the look in Jamie's eyes unchanged.
rs 1t the same girl YETI" she asked
him at the first opportunity.
His boyish eyes rebuked her. "Who
else?' he asked.
Jamie, you child" she cried i'm
pulsively. THE dew's still on Won
| can see 1t sparkle"
"Spose you mean I'm fresh and
green?'
Il mean that | wish | knew a few
grown up men just like you"
jamie understood without under.
standing, and 1t moved him to puII out
his gunmetal watch.
TN let you look" he said, openirg
the back lid
A smile curved her lips as she
glanced at the crude little picture
Her own likeness had been In the ma
Of several watches, so she was less
impressed than Jamie had intended
her to be. But, as she met his bpo