The daily Alaskan., 1909-02-08

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 air. I got or and surveyed Che land scape in the downing light
 Just as I bad strollcd a little too far-whisk went my train. Not only my train, but my worldly possessions. ! had left even my hand bag in the berth. So you see me abjectly pau per until l can overtake my posses slons"
 "They shall be overtaken. Don't worry about that. But tell me, what did you think, feel. do. when you found yourself leftyr Finders said, looking straight at her.
 "Oh, promptly forgot the landscape and looked for a milepost. The first ono I found read "Hlghtown, -- miles Some malefaStor had smudged the figures, but at least there was promise of finding something. It was not false promise, you sec. tramp | cd on and found-you."
 q wonder will you think you found anything worth whllcT Endcrs mur- mured renectiyely. as though to him self. Miss Maxwell laughed. You don't know what case you arc In, that ! is very evident" she said. "I hate to proclaim the fact baldly, but make n ] living by writing love stories. aud ever | since Doris cane home I've been won dering if you were lt for Che place you are to occupy in the tale am weaving | about her"
 ! "I defy you, defy anybody, to make nc a hero of romance" EDSers said, flushing deeply. Again AIiss Maxwell laughed but, after it, she shook her head, saying You truly won't do for the hero of my romance-cxccpt your own"
 That was the beginning of lt The end came six months later. Doris Max well settled down easily upon a place she bought just outside Bnllantrae, then brought in her name child Co keep her company while she eXperimented at homemuking.
 . So it had been the most natural thing in the world for Enders to fall in the way of haultlng the Maxwell house. . His new motor made nothing of the thirty mile journey. He found the two Dorlses doubly delightful and for three months at least lapped his conscience into believing that Doris, the girl, was the magnet
 Then came illumination sudden and fierce. It took shape of a man, much older much richer than himself a power in the publishing world. no less the critical one. who came down upon the dovccotc of a household, fully re- solved to carry ofr Doris Maxwell al- most whether or no
 Doris Clare almost chuckled while she contdCd to Endcrs the whole story. Its so funny" she said. At first Colonel Baker was quite condo. sccudiug- -courtcd Aunt Doris with the air of heaven is resolved to reward you, my child Re duly and truly grateful Then when she said No hardly troubling to say Thank you alter it, he got desperately earnest and demonstrated with her for stand ing so much in her own light
 But it was comiC-there's DO other word for it-when he began to buster. Still, do you know he almost frighten- cd Aunt Doris? She ran away from him-She who is so brave think she was afraid he would wear out her re- sIstancc, he's such fine, high old Turk, whom nobody ever crossed be- fore. And to think he's mctaphoric. ally on his knees to her now!
 If only she can bring herself to take hlm-but I won't talk of that. darcn't let myself. IL would mean such lot to-both of us."
 "No doubt sue will take him. En- ders said, grinding his teeth as he walked away. He was a false proph- ct. Doris sent the colonel away more than ever dlsconSolate, but that did not hinder him from coming back next month, and the next, and the next.
 Why don't you put him out of his misery in some fashion| Endcrs ask ed of Miss Maxwell upon the third re. turn. She smiled little sadly. There's just one way to put him out of it," she said, "Ond I can't take that; 1t would be too ungroteful."
 "Ungrateful! don't understand ' Enders returned. She looked over his head, saying softly: q was a stranger, and you took me in. More, you gave me the best breakfast l ever ate. Wouldn't 1t be black lngratItude In mo to turn the coloners eyes tO Doris2 She could console him beauufully-be to him a hundred times all he hopes to find in me. And how she would reyel In spending his money and tyr annizing over him! But 1 can't bring myself to take away your sweetheart indeed. I'm holding the colonel nei- ther on nor on until after you two'-
 "we two can be left out of the ac- count" EnGers said almost hotly. "Doris! Doris! You are the wife ! want Let the colonel have the pretty child and welcome. I've waited all these years for you. Now I will have you, whether or no"
 You see I was right" Doris Max