The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1913-09-04
WHEN he MADE GOOD
BY JOHNSON W. HiTrMAN.

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
flannels settled back in the hammock
and turned his patrician face to the
questioner.
"By jove! you're getting prettier
every day, coz" he said
Il don't want your compliments or
your praise, Herbert Rollins" she re-
piled with blazing eyes. 81 want you
to answer my question"
The man drew "the makings" from
his pocket and began slowly to roll
cigaret.
Whats the use?" he asked.
"Use!" she exclaimed. What are
you living for?"
The girl looked at him scornfully.
Now, look here, Nell" he said
| throwing the cigaret away. Il have an
| ample fortune, thanks to the wisdom
and industry of my respected grand
father. l don't spend my income
can't spend it. Why in the name of
| goodness should l bother my mind
with money-making? Why should I
harry myself with all the work neces-
sary to a successful professional ca
| reer when l do not need the emolu-
ments which would crown it in the
very doubtful event that succeeded
especially when there are so many
cz111 f,,I
in their choice of a grandfather and
who are compelled to do these things
in order to live? There Is no in
centive"
Incentive" exclaimed the girl very
pale. IN tell you one thing, Herbert.
1t has been an understood thing in the
family that am to marry you. l 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 it is best so, Nell" he said
gravely. Il don't know but we would
worry each other intolerably. 1t will
|
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
| - t. TryIS I,a
claimed. And she is out far over heI
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 gel
frightened and drown"
While he was talking he had peeled
to his trousers and undershirt ant
| pulled off his shoes, and before Miss
! Nellie fairly knew what was going OF
: he had plunged into the surf and wa:
, 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
: full sense of satisfaction pervaded her
"All he needs is the spur Of neces
= sity," she said. "And I'll see that HI
gets that. My, but he's a splendid fel
low"
:. OF sudden the girl floating far ou
\ gave a piercing shrek and the heaC
!, disappeared. Rollins had nearl.
reached her. He shouted to her tt
q float for a minute and he would reacl
|. her. But the panic was in her, ant
4 she heard nothing. AS she reappeare'
" on the surface she shrieked again
" Out from the cottages and from tn
# hotel people rushed to the beach. Mel
r. lie held her breath in horror. Rollin
# was fairly leaping through the water
?. II never saw swimming like that,
r. said one of the men who was helping
q shove the emergency boat into tn
# water. 81 think he'll get her."
# Nellie looked at the man and smile
A. gratefully. All about the people wer
r. commenting on the force and powe
g of the man who seemed to be fairl
N shooting through the water.
IF There is heart-breaking minute o
d two and then the strong swimme
,e comes up and clutched tightly by tn
Y, hair he has the form Of the insensibl
r girl.
;" It was a long and hard swim, wit
0. the heavy burden, before the men wit
the boat picked them up. And whe
7. they reached the shore dainty gil
~ stood clear down to the edge wher
le the swell of the water washed he
s. ankles. AS Rollins stepped from tn
IN boat unsteady from his great exertiol
D. she cried:
lie Bert, you are splendid. take
er all back. You are the hero of m
es dreams"
rt He regarded her inscrutably for
OF moment. Then, leaving the uncol
se scious form of the girl in the boat
A be cared for by the willing bystander
n he took Nellies hand and led her bac
to the trees.
". Nell" he said, brokenly, don't yo