The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-07-25
Daily Short Story
THE MAN SHE WANTED.


When John Daniels Lac rone Elsis
Clayton Uent uR 20 her room anc
stood before her bureau Their. fac-
lng her were pictures % the fn.r ne
had knosn al her life-James Harry
seldom Gtafton. Elton Greedy and a
host q Othe-r
It's a MAJ Ike one o. thee that
"A ! must marry she told herself. looE
ing over the line Of handsome faces
Men NhC simply couldn't 90 stand
linz things IN public a. John Daniels
does I couldn ever have stood Johns
western ways. ] did right In refusing
him
Elsie had indeed been tr,ea by
johns exotic western manners. she
remembcred Der feelings on her first
and last-wSlk with him down Fifth
avenue. when be bad worn a great
cowboy bat with rawhice wound
about the crown. HIS unrestrained
laughter on the night when be had
taken her 20 the theatre had drawn
the eyes OF the entire audience toward
them.
Hes always doing such strange
things" she meditAted. her eyes on
her rather pale reflection IN hte mir
Tor. Nc. even though do love him
] couldn't marry him"
With which declaration abe endea-
vored TO shake the matter from her
mind by preparing 20 20 10 the Grand
Central station 20 meet her girl chum
who would arrive on the O'Clock
train.
John Daniels. at this moment. was
sauniering dejeetedly along Broad
way.
The game Is up" he was telling
himself sadly. Shall I make a the
East river or the third rail7"
But he was not coward enough to
al Evn
that he would plod on through life,
happy or unhappy.
There are packs OF down -and-out
just like me- he remembered as he
crossed Thirty-fourth street and came
face 10 face with a red-eyed. pale-faced
young girl. who might have been an
eN-shop girl or an ex-stenographer.
After giving her two or three glances
Johns great western heart was
touched Since his first hour IN New
York he had never been able TO pass
an unfortunate without Offering help.
IL had become a habit with him. Now
he was glad he had formed that habit
Almost forgetting his own trouble.
he turned and followed the girl along
Thirty-fourth street. instead OF pursu-
ing his course down Broadway.
II only ! could get some money
into that little limp purse on her
When the two reached the corner
OF Thirty-fourth street and Fifth ave
nue. the girl turned sharply and began
to retrace her steps.
Has she lost something. or does
she suspect that am following herr"
he wondered. stopping at a shop win
dow 70 observe her surreptitiously in
the glass.
But apparently the girl had neither
lost anything nor suspected his follow
ing her. With head down, she pushed
her way through the crowd.
When they reached Herald Square.
however, John guessed her reason for
turning.
IN bet she's put an ad in a paper
Tor employment and is going TO see n
there's an answer for her Maybe she
thought II wasn't much use, but de-
cided 10 try once more"
Evidently this was her reason. She
went straight to a want ad answer
window and received only curt
shake of the head from the clerk who
returned her slip. John could have
killed that clerk.
Their next course was up Sixth ave-
nue.. The girl went more YEARLY now
Hang convention" he muttered as
he noted the lag OF her feet "Out
west a fellow can offer his wad 20 a
woman without being suspected OF
villainy." At Forty-first street, tho
girl took a sudden cut across the park
Che came out, crossed Fifth avenue