The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-10

young lady by the arm and dragged
her thirty feet away. She cried our
in alarm, but he did not heed her-
The runaway horses left the drive
and cut across the green, and the way
they made splinters of that bench
and ran the squirrels up the trees was
a sight to see.
May Rogers saw it-for it was May
and realized the danger she had so
closely escaped. With her breath com
thanks, and when she had more fully
recovered herself, the doctor had dis
appeared. The girl wondered at TINS
He had done a brave deed and should
have exchanged names. But for MIN,
there surely would have been trag-
edy.
Doctor Randolf passed another de-
spairing two or three weeks. There
was but one ray of sunshine for him
il. that time. A child attempted TO
swallow a spool of thread, ard he was
called to extract the spool as it stuck
in the throat He got it out all right,
and the grateful mother handed over
the two dollars with a hope that he
might have forty cages before a week
had passed. After all, that was doing
pretty well for a young doctor and
Doctor Randolf almost felt that he
could afford to smoke a 10-cent cigar
as he returned to his office. 1t was
the next day as he wandered around
tierts, that an automobile coilided
with a brick wagon just across the
street from him. There was a scream
and a crash. and oaths flew about like
snowflakes from the chauffeur ard
the driver. The doctor was over be-
side the vehicle in a few seconds, and
he helped a half-fainting girl to a
place of safety on the sidewalk. 1t
was the same May Rogers. She was
in a bad nervous state. and he escort
ed her to a nearby drug store, and
gave her something to steady her
nerves. 1t might have seemed like
taking an undue advantage to offer
his card, or ask her name and the
doctor forebore. She had scarcely
swallowed the powder the druggist
gave her when Doctor Randolf walked
out and engaged an automobile for
her and advised her tnat it would be
better for her to go home. If lie had
been little holder he would have Of
Tered to go with her
1t must be said that the days and
weeks rolled past again, and the doc
tor was coming on with a practice.
Ihen came a dreary day. The doctor
had sat in his office-f from 8 O'Clock
IN the morning until in the after
noon. Nobody had been hurt. No
body wanted anything for a sore
throat. The children of the city had
ceased to play with spooIs of thread
Ihen, all of a sudden, there arose a
commotion in the hall, and the doctor
opened his door to look out There
was May Rogers again. She had been
somewhere on foot, and. in attempt
ing to go around some obstruction in
the street, she had fallen and broken
her arm, and the laborers had had
the sense to bring her to the right
place. What was a doctors sign for
unless to let folk know that he could
set broken arm? The girl was bear
ing the pain bravely. She even al
most smiled as she said:
why, it's you, is it? You never
told me that you were a doctor. AS
have come to your office, you cannot
run away from me this time
The landlady was called in and the
broken bone was set. Doctor Ran
dolf was a bit nervous over it, but
! the operation was completed in good
shape and, instead of running away,
he got a vehicle and tenderly lifted
her into it and rode home with her.
You can guess the rest. Perhaps you
have been there yourself. 1t is always
such marriages as this that turn out
very happily, and this was no excep-
ton. Doctor Randolf has a fine Of
flee and a good practice now.-(Copy-
right, 1917, by the Mcclure newspaper
Syndicate.)