The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

pass our entrance examination. And then to work your way through-why, my boy, your plan is impossible. Give it up!"
 Tom shook his head. 'Ill try. I've got four years" he said.
 A year later Tom Holloran passed the entrance examinations. He en- tered upon three years course. At the end of the time he put his sheep tropolis, with decent suit of clothes on his back and dollar in his pocket.
 The butler who admitted him to the financier's house looked at him dubiously.
 'Ill give your name to Mir Henry" he said, in a non-committal manner. He stopped Tom barred the way.
 Miss Helen-'' Tom stammered.
 "I'll see, sir" said the butler.
 Ten minutes passed. Then the finan- cier entered the room. He did not know Tom.
 q am MT. Holloran," said Tom. You remember our agreement-that was to marry your daughter in four years"
 The bankers face grew purple. You impudent rascal he said. Get out of my house"
 "I shall wait on the doorstep till I
 see Helen," said Tom.
 The banker glared at him and left
 the room. quarter of an hour later he returned with stylishly dressed young woman, who looked at Tom as if he were hardly a human being. But it was Helen. Tom hardly heard her scathing words, he only knew that his pride was crushed. Her ringing laughter dismissed him. He stumbled from the room.
 The next day he entered his fa- thers house. The old man, hardly changed, looked up and nodded. T recognize you, son." he said. "Still fool, reckon. Still hanker- ing after that girl. I warned ye. told ye."
 "Yes, was a fool" said Tom. I've come back to get job with the boats."
 "If that's all you're worth" said the old man, you'd best have stayed where you was.' The panic year wiped out many fortunes, and loudest was the crash of the Henry chain of banks. In a
 day the banker was a ruined outcast,
 and the next week suicide. The house was sold. The papers contained
 strange stories of Helen's discovery
 upon the island, and reporters cama
 and pestered Tom. But nobody knew
 anything of the girl
 Still a fool, Tom?" His father
 asked one day. as the young man sat
 breeding over his nets. T reckon so," said Tom. You've given the best years of your youth to worthless woman," said his father. "Now is the time to
 look for another'' Tom did not answer. His spirit seemed broken. All the neighbors
 interest in life. Gradually they ac-
 cepted him as one of themselves | again, and forgot. There is legend along the coast | that what the sea gives, 1t takes; what | it takes it restores. The winter of that | year was one of raging storms. Many ship in distress far out at sea was sighted, but it was not till February that the lifeboat rockets signaled
 wreck upon the rocks in the bay. They launched the boat. Tom, bend. | ing to the oars, saw dimly, through the blizzard the bulk of great liner ly. | ing between the needle-points. The | cold cut him like razor edge. Me, chanically he bent his strength to the | oar.
 As the boat drew near and tried to | lay alongside, while the breakers pounded her, desperate cry of
 multitude fell on their ears. mighty
 wave had swept the decks of half their
 huddled humanity. The waves were
 black with bobbing heads, hands .clutched wildly for aid and found none.
 Tom leaped into the sea to where | woman's head appeared for a mo
 ment in the suck of a giant wave. He
 seized her by the hair and hauled
 her to the boats edge. Somehow they got her in.
 Laden to her gunwales with all that they had been able to rescue, the lifeboat made her difficult way to- | ward the shore. But when she reached it at last and the men and fisherwives who had assembled there looked into Toms face they knew who the we'll
 dressed strange woman was. Tom kneeled beside her, chafng her cold hands. A tress of her hair hung like wet wisp over him. Her eyes were closed, but faint pulse stirred in her.
 She will live" said the doctor that night. But her brain is injured How far, don't know. It is impossible to say until she wakes "Still a fool, Tom?" inquired his fa-