The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1911-05-05

He waited for news OF her An.
heard a group OF excited girls say
Poor little thing, her mother diet
last week and she is all alone"
Willis mind. working slowly
evolved a plan. "I'd like to send heI
home In a cab he said to one OF the
girls. 1T seems to me that | am
partly to blame. Everybody who
shops in such a crowded season is to
blame. | might have waited until the
rush was over"
The girl looked at him curiously.
You get the cab" she said, "and I'll
bring her down when she is better"
At the door OF the cab Willis asked
! for her number. and he blushed and
stammered
The next day he hunted her up. He
found her on the top floor Of tene
ment. looking smaller and whittier
than ever. as she lay curled up on
the couch. One OF the women in the
house was looking after her, but
there were few evidences of comfort
She greeted him In q startled way
Her life had not made her confiding
III you will let me look after you
= little." he said to her, "Td feel bet
ter. hate to see = little white thinG
like you having to struggle When
you tainted yesterday in the store II
came to me that the world was pretty
cruel to girls like you"
Her eyes filled with tears. "Peo
pie do not think" she said. very
much about U.S.
He did not shower things upon her
Yet he saw to 1t that she had enough
nourishing food.
She did not dream he was q rich
man. His clothes, his rough hands,
his hesitating manner. gave no i'm
preston OF Affiuence.
Yet she chung to him; loved him |;
worshiped him. He was not SLOW
Coach Willis" to her, but . wonderful
being OF tenderness and strength.
When at last he asked her to marry
him, she would have gone with him
to perjury. She did not dream that
his house was. In a sense. a fairy
palace. Plain on the outside, It was
like rose within.
Spurred by the rapture OF his love
for her, Willis demanded from his
shrewd lawyer friend information ~
to the keeping up Of an up-to-date
establishment. stout maid was
hired to assist his housekeeper. He
bought big limousine and an cleo
trio. and when he took the little white
maid home to his village they rode
In the big car wrapped in furs.
But you mustn't be so extrava-
CANT" she told him. thinking 1t hired
for the occasion, after this. or
course, Just for our wedding journey
1t is all right. but after that you
mustn't"
He smiled in his slow way, and he
laughed little as he carried her
over the threshold OF her own room.
1t was the rose room.
Obi" she said. and drew a quick
little breath. "Oh. is it fairyland?"
No. 1t is your home" he told her.
She fitted into 1t like jewel into
Its proper setting. She had a city
womans knowledge of the proper
thing; and 1t came about that Willis
Lamphear's home became the center
of hospitality In the town. And Will
lis took on new dignity. His wife
told him what to get and he bought
it. His clothes, made by a city tailor,
fitted him and gave him an air of a
man of the world. He was no longer
"Slow-Coach WILLIS" the townspeo-
pie were proud Of him and of his pref
ty wife.
But there were some women to
whom Willis success was sour
grapes. 81 wouldn't have had him
with all his money" they would say
spitefully.
But Willis wife knew that she
had won prize; she had seen be-
meath the surface into the heart OF
the man.