The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-08-26

was still so sharply defined that he
was not surprised to find her stand
ing at his bedside.
Before he could frame any of the |
queries which came thronging to the
door of the returned consciousness
she smiled and shook her head and
forbade him.
Later in the day the doctor came;
and when the professional require
ments were satisfied, Griswold learned
the bare facts of his succoring. 1t
was Characteristic of the Griswold OF
other days that the immense obliga'
ton under which the Griersons had
placed him made him gasp and per-
spire afresh.
Griswold looked long and earnestly
at the face of his professional adviser.
1t was a good face, clearly lined, be-
nevolent, and, above all, trustworthy.
Tell me one thing more, doctor, If
you can. What was the motive? Was
it Just heavenly good-heartedness?--
or"
The doctors smile was the least
possible shade wintry.
when you have lived a few years
longer in this world of ours, you will
not probe too deeply into motives;
you will take the deed as the suttl-
cient exponent of the prompting be-
hind it. If | say so much, you will
understand that l am not impugning
Miss Grierson's motives. There are
! times when she is the good angel of
everybody in sight, Mr."
The pause after the courtesy title
was significant, and Griswold filed it
promptly. ACKNOWLEDGMENT Girls
void. Do you mean to say that you
haven't known my name, doctor"
1--WE have not. We took the Good
Samaritan's privilege and ransacked
your belongings-Miss Margery and
thinking there might be relatives
or friends who should be notified"
"And you found nothing?" queried
the sick man, cold fear gripping al
his heart.
Nothing but clothing and your toi
let tools, a pistol, and a typewriter
book manuscript bearing no sigma
ture."
Griswold turned his face away ant
shut his eyes. Once more his stake
in the game of life was gone.
"There was another package of--o
papers in one of the grips" he said
family; quite large package
wrapped in brown paper"
1--WE found nothing but the manu-
script. Could anyone else make us'
of the papers you speak off,"
Griswold was too feeble to preVari
cate successfully.
There was money in the package,
he said, leaving the physician to infe1
what he pleased.
"Ah; then you we're robbed. It's ;
pity we didn't know it at the time. l
is pretty late to begin looking TO
the thief now, I'm afraid"
quite too late," said Griswold me
notonously.
1t was not until after the doctor ha
gone that Griswold was able to fac
the new misfortune with anythln
! like sober measure of equanimit,
: With or without money, he must r
lieve the Griersons of their sci
assumed burden at the earliest po
sible moment.
This was the thought with which
, sank into the first natural sleep
: convalescence. But during the da!
J which followed, Margery was able
=. modify 1t without dulling the ket
edge of his obligation. What perfe
hospitality could do was done, Wit
out ostentation, with the exact g
: gree of spontaneity which made 1t
pear as a service rendered to a XII
!. man. 1t was one of the gifts OF t
daughter of rlen to be able to igno
. all the middle distances between
~ introduction and friendship; and
~, ~ the time Griswold was strong enou
-. ~ to let the big, gentle Swede plant h
W in a Morris chair in the sun-Warm
u bay window, the friendship was ts
rr accomplished.
10 do you know, you're the most WI
,,s derful person l have ever knoWnT'
"a said to Margery, on the first of
or summing days when she had come
perch in the window seat opposite
~ chair do you believe in destiny?'
~, She nodded brightly. Sometime
~. do; when it brings things out the "
~ l want them to come out"
va 1--WE often wondered" he went
~ musingly. Think of it-somewht
III back in the past you took the fl
Of step in the path which was to IL
ist you to that late supper in the Oh
yet teau. Somewhere in my past l tt
the first step in the crooked trail t
was to lead me there"
"Well?" she encouraged
"The paths crossed-and am y
poor debtor" he finished. Il
ers never hope to repay you and y
an father for what you have done"
red "Oh, yes you can," she asser
ess lightly. "You can pass it along to
ter man farther down. Forget it, and
ms, me what you want to know about
in haska"
ese First, I'd like to know my uoct
ide name"
hat THE ideal" she exclaimed. "Ha
his there been anybody to introduce y
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