The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-10

l2xzE=ssNygSL slender tip Of the
Metropolitan tower lost
itself in air, seven hundred feet above the
pavement, was wide fringe OF peacock
blue. And fer down, where East Twenty
fourth Street opened panel OF sky into the
hc4rt iof the East Side, livid, purplish
green brooded like some MALIGNANT miaslna
over swamp.
Everything was very beautiful or at
least very strange aao intcrestine, and Miss
Luella Van Roche AlIston WIS glad thai she
had come to see it. Tier sAing ii was some
thing Of an adventure II e,~lf; and the
facts thar she hadarlss.i teiv thrceoclock
stolen away from bolA, ..lAout saying
Boql" to anybody, AHA ltoca down from
Central Park West on i.r SIKH Avenue
Elevated, proclaimed hcr IN sGvcntuse-
tsome and unusual me,ahsr ol ira. iota Of
society known as So~ist. Originality,
which may be considered s...t o. p.rvcrsc-
ness, had been diligently lo.tc,cd in her;
for nearly half of her twenty-iuG- Years she
had been urged, by interested prs,ns ana
publications, to believe that she Sas as
original as she was beautiful. She vas be-
ginning to feel that the well-greased grooves
Of Society were too straight and narrow for
her, and, although she had not carried her
analysis of her mental state to this extreme,
she was quite prepared to do something
more than usually perverse..
She was in the act OF lightly meditating
these matters, shivering, and deciding to go
home, when her attention was attracted by
the remarkable actions OF one of the monde
scripts. In the course Of a short, arm
threshing promenade, evidently taken for
the purpose of counteracting the chill Of the
April morning, he had developed violent
1T OF coughing He gasped, choked bent
double, tottered on his heels. In final
paroxysm he seemed to suffer sort of
melting process that left him, in gray
heap, upon the sidewalk.
Miss Allston had never 'Jefore seen any,
thing quite so physically distressing, and it
startled her so that the ostrich plumes on
her wide, black hat t-,mbled as if in the
presence of a breeze. Her cheeks flushed
until they were even more scarlet than those
Of the other women abroad at that hour.
She sat with widened eyes, gripping her
Egyptian-bronze purse upon her caracul
lap, and wondering what would happen.
During the ten or fifteen minutes while a
small crowd collected, policeman APP
peared, and an ambulance came changing
up to the sidewalk, she did not move. But
as white-clad surgeon alighted from the
vehicle; she arose and went quickly over to
the little group Of down-looking men and
women.
Pushing her way throuth one rim Of the
small circle, she looked down upon the gray
heap at its center. The colors in the sick
mans cheeks, eyeballs, and mouth shot
sensations of horror from her hair to the
soles OF her feet Out Of the fullneSs OF her
unusual emotion, she spoke to the surgeon:
"0h, can't anything be done for him2
How terrible Send him to the best hospital
at once, pleasel Horribel | will pay
whatever is necessary How frightfulln
The surgeon, who had propped up the
mans head and was calmly observing him,
turned pair Of chilly blue eyes into Miss
AlIston's Except for the blue Of these
eyes, the reddish tinge Of little pointed
beard, and the light red Of his lips, his keen,
clean face might have been cut from block
Of white stone.
Run along, Theresa" he said, evidently
misgaging her position on the social scale.(
Some bromo setzer and few hours sleep
for yours"
Miss Allston tried to draw herself up to
her full height, which was not inconsider-
able, and crush him with steely "Sirl"
But the superior, tolerant look in his eyes
reduced her efforts TO spasmodic jerk and
sibilant. She realized suddenly that the
ambulance man, in spite Of the fact that he
wore unifo(m, was different, in many
ways from all the buffers and footmen Of
her acquaintance.
ri am not accustomed TO being ad-
dressed In that manner!n she said. becom-
inB Increasingly conscious that she was
chilly and that the bystanders were staring
: ~ i.<s. a.ll Miss Van Rooie al,sloA.
have Offered to pay for treatment for this
man. and ! expect an answer. Can moth
Ing be done for him2
Th< surgeon. reforming his judgment by
shsrt stare. dismissed his superiority and