The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-09-10

II. knelt down by the bed and awk-
werdly began to battle the girls fore
head. So troubled was he that he
.orgot to wonder why he had been
sent for. until his eyes fell on a pic
ture that hung by the bed. To his
utter astonishment, Willy Ben found
his own image staring at him from
an ornate gilt frame. Then he looked
about the room and saw that he was
everywhere. When he won the big
tennis match from the champion OF
the Enderby Athletic association every
paper in New York had printed his
photograph, and here they all were.
on walls and tables and dresser, the
only pictures in the room.
His address was printed under one
of them and Willy Ben could now cas-
lily understand why the landlady had
sent for him. But he had never seen
the girl on the bed, he was sure OF
that. and why had she lined her walls
with his photograph? There could be
only one explanation. Willy Ben was
strong, well-built, slxfooter, but he
was not handsome, and to find that his
rough-hewD, freckled countenance had
appealed to one feminine heart was a
wonderful thing. A deep crimson
dyed his tanned cheeks.
The stairs began to creak and
wheeling sounded regularly from be-
low. Mrs. Lorgey and the doctor, he
supposed 1t must be. They pulled into
the room, large oily woman and a
large untidy man. While the doctor
examined the girl, Mrs. Lorgey sank
into a chair, oozing over the sides and
began a grumbling explanation.
She came yesterday and twas bad
luck | took her in. | gave her the
room most reasonable, and this morn
ing she goes and gifts run into by a
cab"
"A concussion," murmured the doc
tor, soothingly, only slight concus-
sion"
The landlady pointed to the picture
Of the young man. Il didn't know
| where she come from nor anything
about her. but seen you was friend
Of bern. 30 sent for you on a guess"
Willy Ben was about to admit his
| ignorance, but he looked at the pic
lures Of himself and then at the
pretty little girl on the bed. Beneath
his tailor-made New York clothes his
homemade Bologee heart swelled with
pride.
She is a very dear friend of mine,"
he answered tenderly. "and l intend
to have her moved to the hospital at
once"
At the hospital, Emily Walton came
back to consciousness to find clean
looking, red-hsaded young man sit
ting patiently beside her. For long
time she regarded him in silence, then
che spoke wonderingiy.
William Benjamin Bib, the tennis
champion, however, did you come
here?"
Never mind" answered Willy Ben,
for the doctor had said she must not
talk ''I'll tell you tomorrow. We're
playing that I'm your big brother"
She was asleep when he left, and
like a big brother, he kissed her-a
friendly, respectful kiss-Just as II
she were Bess or Evelyn. But all the
time he knew that she was not; he
knew she was the ideal come to life.
Tomorrow came, and for the two
. great many tomorrows. She told
him all her sorry story. how she had
run away from her home to go on the
stage, and how, though she could
cook and sew and recite Hamlet's so.
liloquy better than any girl in board.
ing school, she could not act. Hav.
ing a stubborn kind of pride which
look the place of courage, she had
gone on trying and trying. And
when the cab struck me-" she told
him, 81 was glad to think the fight
was over"
his mother. his brothers and sisters,
how he used to steal away from school
TO visit the swimming pool, how q
mad dog came through town and he
had to kill his faithful hound, how a
rattlesnake bit him In the leg one
day. He told 1t all so fervently that
little Emily, who was born in a board
Ing house and brought up in hotels
grew homesick.
when the wound on her foreDeau
was we'll and the time came for her
to leave the hospital the young man
made brilliant suggestion.
why go back to that horrid place!
Let's go right out and be married"
And spend the honeymoon in Bolo
geo." she added,
SO It was settled, and Willy Ben
who knew that marriages are made
in heaven, fell to wondering. TIC
think" he cried rapturously, that
you fell in love with my picture be
fore you ever saw mel"
But the little Emily was truthful