Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-29
TIE euILETIN's DAILY STORY
THREE FALLS

i reading a year or two with aA old 1 judge, friend of his father. Tom de- | cided to hang up his shingle in An l derville. All this time Elsie and he l had never happened to meet. Of course, their correspondence had long ! since gone the way of all other youth shrewd suspicion that Tommy. though afterward he vowed that he had all ways been faithful, had almost for gotten Elsfe- Dana Orcutt had been decided to take up medicine instead of law and had been established at . Anderville for some months when Tommy finally blossomed out into a promising young lawyer, and settled down in his native town.
 All three met, naturally, for their parents had all been playmates long ago; and, naturally. Tommys love, sight of Elsie, with Dana as a favored attendant A mans desire for girl is increased 10 times by the sight of another mans desire for her. Tom threw himself into the lists with all the ardor that one would expect from a Harvard boy and a lawyer at that
 But, somehow. try as he would, he could not regain his old position. At their first meeting, the glad light in E1Sie's eyes promised wel1 but after that one blissful night, she was never the same to him. She seemed to dread being alone with him, and turned to
  lief and welcome whenever, as some times chanced Tommy managed to get her to himself. She would not listen to him. she would not even answer when he begged her to tell him how he had offended her. At last, he grew as eager as she was to avoid a meet ing.
 He took to going off on long, lonely rides; and it was when he was re- turning from one of these, riding moodily, his head down, the reins hanging loosely in his hand, while he wondered and wondered over Elsie's strange avoidance, that he fell again.
 The forest pathway through which he was riding, was thicl1ly strewn with pine-needles. which deadened the sound of his horses footballs and he was him. She was seated at the foot of tall pine, her face was buried in her hands. her shoulders heaving with suppressed emotion. As she glanced scarlet, and she sprang to her feet as if on the point of hurrying away.
 In second Tommy had-I was go- ing to say he had thrown himself from his horse, but to tell the truth, the horse, a hired brute. dead-beat from his long trip, gone half asleep while he padded slowly through the cool, forest aisies, and rl1dely. awakened by less rider violently forward.
 Tommy shot through the air like a catapult and with his usual luck, fell at Elsie's feet Only this time it was not whole and sound, but with twisted leg and a broken collar bona.
 Hard luck, almost anyone would have said, but Tommy always declared it was the luckiest thing that ever hap pened to him, for. as he lay stunned. half unconscious, he felt Elsie's tears on his face and heard Elsie's voice murmuring distractedly:
 "Tomi Dear Tom! Answer me-Ohl dR al fxi shall die tool"
 Then-he felt the soft pressure of her lips on his, and then-he slowly and deliberately opened his eyes to see- Elsie's white face turn scarlet.
 "Elsie," he said, catching her hand as she turned away, Tate has thrown me at your feet three times. think you will have to taka me-"
 And Elsie, forgetting all that Dana Orcutt had told her of the girl to whom he said Tommy had engaged himself while he was reading law with the old judge, whispered as she helped him to his feet:
 Perhaps I'd better. Tommy. Then I shall always be on hand to pick you up."-Boston Post.