Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-01-15

want to git. tall, ma ann he In
quired with gravity and well-simu-
lated professional interest. How
tall?"
Miss Pauline could not answer i'm
mediately. Her heart pounded and
her ears roared. Things she had not
thought of since the day before her
pony threw her on the Wellsheld
road ran through her brain.
The gentleman who so magnani-
mously dispensed divine favors took
up the matter in raucous way with
the crowd merely to hold II together.
She does not know-she does not
know" he bawled hoarsely.
But she answered at last in her
gentle way that from being four
something she would esteem II a
great glory to become five-something.
And some turned their heads away
with tears in their eyes.
The fakir bowed gravely.
1T can be done. ma'am." he said,
but not by-medicine. You must
go to the specialists who elongate
the vertebrae. Yours is very spe-
cial and peculiar trouble. With you
1t will take a long course of bone and
muscle training-very long--lots of
money, oh, a great deal of money
more than you ever saw. ma 'am-''
Things turned green and dark be-
fore Miss Pauline, exactly as they do
when one goes suddenly out of strong
sunlight on snow into black closet.
And she turned away hppelessly--for
she was very poor.
Miss Pauline did not hear the roar
of laughter, nor the thunder of wag-
ons on the cobblestones. She only
realized that she had again missed
her ChanCe-and because she was
poor. So, although she was not bit
ter, there lay on her soul certain
languor and dependency that was
like river mist on Il yard OF flowers,
And the cough tortured her throat
even more Interestingly.
The day after Miss Pauline receiv-
ed the note from her solicitors touch
ing the legacy was different. II was
a new day. sAnd she went trembling
ly to her knees to thank her Good
and Merciful" for the bit of linen pa
per scrawled over with lawyers
words.
Dear Madam" II said stiffly, 1--WE
are pleased to acquaint you OF the
fact that the estate of your uncle, the
late John Holbert. is at last out OF
litigation. BY recent decision of
the Supreme Court you become sole
legatee of some $4,000 and real
property aggregating as much more
As we were your uncle's trusted So
licitors, we hope you will see your
way to"
She had read the blessed document
until the purple lines were dim with
her rubbing, and all the time a mad
unusual JOY burned in her gentle
heart.
IL have lots OF money" she muir.
INJURED. II can grow as tall as wish
and soon. shall hunt out these
scientific wonder-workers. will be
tall"
And for whole night she dreamed
of walking through green fields
where the sun always shone and q
breeze always played in the clover
tall, graceful, like lily. maybe!
II was DR.. Marchand who found
Miss Pauline In his reception-room
one afternoon at dusk, after the drag
OF a heavy day, when patients seemed
to be ugly and disagreeable as tn,
diseases that brought them to him
He had stepped out of his privat,
consultation room, overcoat In hand
for a last look for loiterers, and
had found Miss Pauline smiling hel
raded smile. In her fingers. tightly
crumpled, was the letter from her so
licitOr, in her eyes the eager, grow
ing light like dawn.
At her face he paused in wonder
stung by sudden memory-then cam,
forward with the usual professional
greeting upon his lips.
In rush the story came out. Ever
Miss Pauline was frightened at tn,
boldness of her tongue speaking tn,
hope of her heart.
Il came to YOU" she finished soft
ly, II came to you because l. knew
that II anyone on earth could help M
to my-my whim's end II would b
some one who knew me when-whel
| was young"
She coughed her little cough, apol
ogetically, and was still.
DR.. Marchand arose from the chat
into which he had dropped after tn
first moment of recognition. Tha
she should have come back to hir
out of the abyss of years and misun
Outstanding like this! With hi
souls ear he heard a sodden sound
like the dropping of clods on a col
fin, smothered, strangling cries. ii
was bit of sentimentalist an
couldn't help 1t. As he looked int
the past he saw young man, a mai,
n misunderstanding-and then emf
tiness, punctured by dying sliye
of news that spoke OF terrible acc
dent, long Illness. After that
was like the night of ages He nevC
heard, he never went back. This pi