Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-08-20
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Short Story
THEIR HERO.
BY Richard AIarkley.

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ing to the eve. A boy OK is is more
absorbed i'm the cut of his clothes
than ever again Ia his life The love
Of personal adjournment is supposed ta
remain with a woman SO long as she
lives. Once out of her teens she fa
won rather by devotion rhan coed
looks Buf. q girl from Is TO 20 is as
much charmed by what Is usually
deuomiuated handsome in hoE as
the boy is by Respondent ucrkuear.
Neither the hoy nor the girl attaches
much Importance to merit
Tom Bergman. aged is. the son Of
well-t0-d0 widow. persuaded his
mother t0 permit him to give house
party ia her country home, which she
did not intend to occupy during the
summer The bunch Tom trained with
was composed o3 boys and Girls ef
ages varying from "a to is. though
none of the girls was quit. IT, Six
boys and six girls were invited 70 the
house party. and all accepted or once.
for none of them had ever been So
hanored before
Mrs Bergman had an intimate
friend, a Mrs. Archibald. whose caI-
sen. Reginald was Of proper aEa 60
be invited 70 the house party Mrs.
.
to her friend, made il q condition ri
giving up her country house TO her
son and her friends that Reginald
Archibald should receive am invita-
ton DO be one of the party
Ton consented and had been HHaI-
GENTLY trained ID social dealings ~
notify the other bows that Reginald
Archibald, being stranger, should ra-
eelre special attention from them AS
to the girls, Tom knew that II they
did not happen to fancy young Arcaf-
bald they would not be likely so put
themselves out Of the way t3 dc him
honor.
When Reginald appeared on the
scene he was found to Doe what a girl
OF l6 would call handsome His com
pseEiou was pink and white. He was
rather tail for his age and 5eLioalzIv
formed He possessed a we'll turned
neck and throat and wore a bEr1nle
coliar-not at all IN 1ashior-ulleb
showed the features to advantage. He
at once gave the impression that he
aan0red the company iu appearing
among them and that he expected I'd
be treated with especial consideration.
AS has been remarked. young ladies'
Of Us are like the fish that go for the
5zaAE-F.H E-1EAE A#EE+a a+atHa.a
sunshine at the end of a lime EEEI-
1aId pink and white complexion his
soft brown eyes, his aTtsticaNg rUu-
b5ed hair, and. above all. that throat
rising above the broad, rolling collar.
eaAtiTated every girl i'm the party
Moreover. his admirers were too Young
ta have received proper training Id
restraining themselves tn such mar
lars. and Mr.. Archibald at once be-
came their hero
Even had the girls RETAINED from
showing their admiration for taa
EoDngster with the pink and white
complexion the other boys doubtless
would have discovered it, They were
not euvious of him. but his receiving
al the attention 20 the entire eEc-u-
sion of all the rest OF them was e-r-
taiuIy calculated TO mar fine pleasure
81 fue party No one OF them could
make am enEa cement with any girl
until She had learned whether EeEiu-
aids Archibald would honcre her wfta
a like invitation # "a boy were chat
ring with a girl she was forever cast
ing Elaucas at the Ad0nis. evidently
more Interested in getting hlm away
from the girl me was with than iu her
companion
The longer this concentrated a..=1-
ton Of the girls upon him lasted the
more Mr.. Archibald seemed no com
slider If G. matter of course. Instead O..
pointing out to the girls The want as
wisdom i'm their course Ea rather enc
aaaraged them in following IT, Instead
pr endeav0riug to be one 1f tae par
9f boys he held aloof from them seems
lag to consider the society OF the girls
preferable ON the whole the young
fellows We're quite eEeazElt1 I'm being
40 in arms against both the girls and
their hero for spelling their fun.
They put their heads together -
7oncoet some scheme 10 show un the
adorable Adonis and reiastate them
solves In the good graces pr the E.r
IlaT one and aIl agreed TO agt au the
9EG saying. absence makes tine -Har
grow gonder' The result speaks for
EsefE
One morning when the girls came
town TO breakfast the butler aH
leuHl1d that some of the boys hal
gone fishing. some TO q baseball.
match The only boy left al home was
heir hero. They bad him for break.
asst they spent the morning with r.u.
He afternoon. and when dinner time
anne le was still their only com gal-
aH. Long before the shadows G. aE-
ming came they found that Mr. a~rH-
bald was q good deal like fish fer
breakfast. fish for luncheon and fish
ar dinner. AT the usual hour for
aaolnE the photograph was set gl-
ne. and since there WAS only tine hero
e dance with and The girls soon tired
+ dancing with one another. they sat
round and m0pad
The bows came In At 10 rrr"rr- no