The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-11-16
Found the
Handkerc chief
BY JEANNE O. LOIZEAUX.

Copyright. 1911. by Associated Literary Press.)
The August day was enough to make
Casper hot and cross. He was all that
and more. He was lonely and the
,, man at the desk was grouchy Casper
wished he had remained on the farm,
| and married his first sweetheart like
the other boys he had been brought up
| with. College was all right. but jour-
nalism, as seen from the reporters
viewpoint, was beginning to be too
much for him So many things hurt
his heart and his sense of right and
| Justice
Go out and dig up some news. Cas-
per-" called Jones from the desk
This weather is hot enough to make
somebody commit murder. and we
want to be nosing around the spot
| when it happens. You've the nose Tor
| news. But don't get soft and let some
girls pretty eyes beg you OF from
playing her up in story.
Casper started out. 1t was Satur
day afternoon, and most of the stores
only newspapers keep up the grind
Saturday afternoons" he said to him
! self 81 feel like drowning myself in
the lake. The News would have
story then--only I'd have to rescue
girl from a watery grave and all the
rest. Wish | knew any nice girl we'll
enough to want to rescue her. wish
could see girl from home-Wish
knew where Ruth is" Going down
the street he met a little mouse OF a
girl that made him think of her
! Entering the first drug store ne call
ed for root beer and asked the clerk
what was doing" His thoughts were
on the girl he had lost track OF.
Suddenly she had stopped her simple
little letters while he was at college,
ana on his graduation he came home
and found that she had left town. The
old aunt she ha6 lived with had died.
and the girl had taken the few hun
dreds that had been left her and had
gone to the city No one knew where
she was going nor what she was going
to do. She had been always a
strange. silent, wide-eyed little thing,
and she had come an orphan into the
town. She never seemed to tit there.
nor to make friends except with Jerry
Caspar He had written school love
notes TO her, and taken her to ice
cream sociables, and walking Sunday
afternoons. Once he took her to
Uncle Toms Cabin" in the opera
house over Swilkins' grocery and
hardware emporium, but she cried
over little Eva so that he had to
take her home before it was fin
ished
The boy, for he was hardly "a, re-
membered how her gray, soft eyes
would widen if anyone was unhappy.
And she was so little and good. He
wished ne could find her. and won
dered whether she were married. She
was not the girl to take care of her
self Then he turned down a street
where It was less noisy, street where
there were many offices of physicians.
and obscure lawyers. the less prosper
Gus business men Where should he
look for a story?
He bethought himself of DR.. Falk-
ner Falkner was a quack. He mad
no conscience. He dealt with the nu-
given Casper a story Casper hated
Falkner, but he slowly walked towards
his place.
! The boy stumbled a little, and in
saving himself from fall, looked up
ward just in time to see a handker-
chief fall and hutter from third
story window to his feet He picked
1t up. 1t was small and clean. but
twisted 1t had an r in the corner. He
laughed little Then a love of ro-
nance, desire for story, made him
suddenly turn into the stairway. He
would see who dropped that handker-
chief OF course Ii had fallen out by
mistake. But perhaps it would be his
luck to find a story behind it or con-
nected with it.
There was no elevator, and the hall
was unspeakably hot and dark Who
ever owned the little twisted rag had
q bad place to stay in, too, second rate
people all through the building The
second fight made him pant little.
but he found the upper hall cleaner
and a little more respectable.
He entered several offices before he
fonud the window he wanted over
looking the street-then he came to
an open door, and went into an office.
but he saw no one The inner door
was closed, but he heard cry within.
and hoped the doctor was not hurting
a child more than he could help-it
was a little child, and he caught the
words clearly, but in a girls voice.
Go away or shall surely call some
one! You shall not!'
Without an instant's pause, Casper
strobe to the door. jerked it open and
entered. A gross-looking tall young
man. carefully dressed, was holding
the arm of slender girl. who was
pulling away from him. her back to-
wards Casper Casper waited a mo-