The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-25

to make me change my mind now
find myself chuck fun o1 romance.
I'm s.s. yo Sen sr. aaas On a s. TOP.
in another week II you'n put yourseaI
in my hands,"
II am inclined to do 30. but
"Oh. you can trust me not to get you
into humiliating position shall ar
range for you to make the acquaintance
Of one particular young lady, and when
must be done romatically. however,
Must stop a runaway horse and save
her nfe?' laughed Mr.. Delray.
"Just leave it all to me- Permit me to
The youth was silly. and yet he was
quaint. He seemed to be talking nom
sense. and yet he seemed very much IN
earnest. The engineer couldn't quite s1xe
II the name OF the boy was Ashley.
then the name of his sister was the
information that the Ashleys were among
the aristocrats and wealthy. AZ for Miss
Claire Ashley-hadn't his eyes beheld her?
a canal from the river to a valley ! mile
away to draw of the extra water In
flood time. In the center Of the mill
saa b,s oce ana on snas
| shanty. He kept q boat to ferry himself
/, to and fro. From his island he could see
for half %se Up sb Sna tSsr the
| were out almost every day.
| Young Bob Ashley hadn't been seen by
the engineer for four days. He had been
| scheming and coaxing and arguing with
his sister Claire. He wanted to go fish,
| ing, and he wanted her to go along. She
, had never been In rowboat. and she de-
ciined. She had never nshed. and she
/ didn't want to.
"In have to go or you will never stop
pesterinE!" exclaimed the sister at last;
At o'clock in the afternoon the engineer
sat before an open window in his shanty
/ office an rowboat passed WITHIN thirty
| feet OF him. It held Bob and his sister.
wasn't He looked young Delray IN tne
eyes and gave him q wink ana moo.
Sometimes a wink and q nod can De pe8'
fectly understood. and sometimes they SIM
I ply mystify.
What did Bob's wink and nod meant
| Il he had anything to communicate wnS
The engineer wasn't mystified over sixty
seconds. Bob lost an oar and stood W
and reached for it, and the skin upset
Fifty people saw the accident, but they
| were on the river banks and had nc
boats. just about twenty seconds hao
| passed when the engineer was in his sktfi
and pulling to the rescue.
Don't faint. sis!' 'admonished Bob a.
he got an arm around his sister TO sup
(! port her.
"But-but we shall be d-drowned!' she
mot unless we are swept over the
dam. and think Mr.. Delray will reach
US in time to prevent that just watch
his strokes! He fully realizes our awful
peril. and that but for him we must b
lost! He comes! He will mako It! We
. are saved! Hear the cheers for his he
roic work.
And what came after was the usua
programme. Mr.. Delray was thanked
and thanked and invited to call. He wa
q hero. No girl heart free was ever NOR
than two minutes admirtng a hero. and
mover more than two weeks in ascertatninf
| whether or not he was engaged.
Just how long 1t was before It WA
know that Mr.. Delray and Miss Clair
Ashley were engaged has nothing to d
| with the case. 1t was about that time
however. when the sister walked up t.
Bob and asked:
young man, when we were cling1ng Il
tho boat that day. didn't you say that .
we went over the dam We should surel.
be drowned?''
Such was my remark" was the reply
But there wasn't a drop OF water run
ming over the damn
NO"
And you lied to me, sir!'
i 'sAnd II hadn't would you now be en-
gagged to the best Teller in seven stAtos1'
i-(Copyright. 1913. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)