The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-03-30

He waited for news OF hor and
heard a group Of excited girls say,
Poor little thing. her mother died
last week and she is all alone"
Willis mind. working slowly,
evolved plan. I'D like to send her
home in n cab" he said to one of the
girls. 1T seems to me that ain
partly to blame Everybody who
shops In such n crowded season is to
blame might have waited until the
rush was over"
The girl looked at him curlously.
You get the cab, she said. and III
bring her down when she Is better"
At the door OF the cab Willis asked
for her number, and he bushed and
stammered
The next day he hunted her up, lie
found her on the top floor Of tene
ment, looking smaller and whittier
than ever aS she lay curled up oh
the couch. One OF the women in the
house was looking after her, but
there were few evidences OF comfort,
She greeted him In startled way.
Her life had not made her coniidlng.
If you viii let me look after you
little" he said to h?r. ia 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. PEG.
pie do not think" she said. very
much about us.
He did not shower things upon her,
Yet he saw to it that she had enough
nourishing food
She did not dream he was rich
man His clothes, his rough hands,
his hesitating manner gave no i'm.
preston Of aGluence.
| Yet she chung to him, loved him;
worshiped him lie was not Slow
/ Coach Willis" to her, but a wonderful
being Of tenderness and strength.
When at last he asked her to marry
/ him. she would have gon" with him
! to penury She did not dream that
I hts house was, in sense, a fairy
1 palace Plain on the outside. # was
/ ike a rose within.
/ Spurrcd by the rapture Of his love
/ for her, Willis demanded from his
/ shrcwd lawyer friend information as
/ to tho keeping up Of an up.to.date
/ establishment. stout maid was
/ hired to assist his hougckeeper. He
1 bought a big limousine and an cleo
/ trio and when h. took the little white
maid home to his village they rode
in the big car wrapped in turs
But you mustn't be SO cXtrava.
cant. she told him thinking 1t hired
for the occasion, after this or
course, just for our wedding journey
It is all right. but after that you
mustn't"
/ He smiled in his slow way and he
laughed a little as he carried her
over the threshold OF her own room.
/ Il was the rose room
on" she said. nnd drew a quick
little breath. "Oh. IS it fairylaud"'
No. # is your home" he told her.
She nttud into It like jewel into
Ita proper setting She had a city
womans knowledge Of tuu proper
thing: and 1t came about that willis
lamphcnrs HON" became the confer
Tor hospitality in the town. And VII
Ii. took on new dignity His wife
told him what to get and he bought
H. His clothes, made by city tailor
fitted him and gave him an air OF
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 u
whom Wills success was sou
grapes. q wouldn't have had hin
with all hts money" they would 50!
spitcfully.
But Willis wife knew that sh'
had won a prize; she had seen be
meath tho surface into tho heart o
p the man.