The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-09-03
WHEN he MADE GOOD
gy JoHNsoN M aITTMAN.

When are you ever going TO make
good When are you ever going to do
anything? When are you ever going
TO justify your birth and breeding and
ancestry
And the girl stamped her pretty
foot hard on the yielding turf
/ The big fellow in the gray outing
+ fannels settled back in the hammock
and turned his patrician face to the
+ questioner
BY joye! you're getting prettier
every day coz he said
4 don't want your compliments or
I your praise Herbert Rollins" she re-
piled with blazing eyes 4 want you
to answer my question"
The man drew the makings" from
his pocket and began slowly to roll 4
cigaret
4 What's the use2' lie asked
'usely she exclaimed. what are
you living for2"
The girl looked at him scornfully.
Now, look here, Nell, he said,
I throwing the cigaret away. 4 have an
ample fortune, thanks to the wisdom
and industry Of my respected grand
father don't spend my income
can't spend it. Why In the name Of
| goodness should bother my mind
with money.making Why should /
harry myself with all the work neces-
sary to a successful professional ca
reer when | do not need the emolu-
ments which would crown it in the
very doubtful event that succeeded--
especially when there are SO many
good fellows who were less successful
in their choice Of grandfather and
who are compelled to do these things
in order to live? There Ia no ip-
centiye'
"Incentiye!' exclaimed the girl very
pale I'm tell you one thing, Herbert
II has been an understood thing III the
family that am to marry you. want
to tell you now that never will marry
such useless butterfly as you In the
world I'll marry a coal HEAVIER first.
Rollins looked steadily at her for a
minute Then he arose and took her
unwilling hand.
Perhaps II is best So Nell, he said
grayely 4 don't know but we would
worry each other intolerably. II will
. raise Cain with Uncle Charley and
your mother, but"
What is that, Bert?" interrupted
the girl, pointing to the surf
He turned lazily and looked over
the sun-lit water
Instantly his entire attitude changed.
He was alive with interest, with pur-
pose, with power.
Great heavens. 1t is Juliai" he ex-
claimed And she is out far over her
depth and cannot swim a stroke.
have been teaching her TO float and
she's let the current carry her out. II
she tries to touch bottom she'll get
frightened and drown
While he was talking he had peeled
to his trousers and undershirt and
pulled off his shoes, and before Miss
Nellie fairly knew what was going on
he had plunged into the surf and was
making great strokes toward the tiny
head bobbing in the water
AS the girl on the shore watched
him do these things with the rapidity
Of thought and noted his splendid self
poise and perfect proportions a CRATE
ful sense Of satisfaction pervaded her.
All he needs is the spur OF neces-
sity," she said. And III see that he
gets that My. but he's a splendid fel-
low"
or sudden the girl floating far out
gave a piercing shrek and the head
disappeared Rollins had nearly
reached her He shouted to her to
float for minute and he would reach
her. But the panic was in her, and
she heard nothing. AS she reappeared
on the surface she shrieked again
Out from thS cottages and from the
hotel people rushed to the beach. Mel
lie held her breath in horror Rollins
was fairly leaping through ;he water
4 never saw swimming llke that,
said one of the men who was helping
shove the emergency boat into the
water. 4 think he'll get her"
Nellie looked at the man and smiled
gratefully. All about the people were
commenting on the force and power
Of the man who seemed to be fairly
shooting through the water.
There is a heart-breaking minute OF
two and then the strong swimmer
comes up and clutched tightly by the
hair he has the form Of the insensible
girl.
It was a long and hard swim, with
the heavy burden. before the men with
the boat picked them up. And when
they reached the shore q dainty girl
stood clear down to the edge where
the swell OF the water washed hei
ankles. As Rollins stepped from the
boat unsteady from his great exertion
she cried:
Bert, you are splendid. ] take II
all back. You are the hero OF ms
dreams"
He regarded her inscrutably for Z
moment. Then. leaving the uncon
scious form Of the girl in the boat tC