Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-21
THE DAILY NOVELETTE,
A RED CROSS SWEATER
By CENETIETE KELLEY

DOSE WELDON, the charming daugh
~ ter Of the wealthy steel magnate
had acquired a case of knitting nerves.
as tn" family doctor iokingly called it
from constant application to Red Cross
work As result the family had deem
ed 1t advisable to open Weldonmert
month earlier than usual: also to b,
near their only son. Clayton, who wa.
quartered at radio station across the
bay.
One afternoon Rose sat in a shady
HOOK, looking across the bay. with q
trown on her pretty forehead. oh
dear" she said. they won't even lie,
me have my knitting and / might be
aopef aDIe 10 keep some poor, boy warm and
urea OF everything and everybody"
Not knowing she had spoken aloud
sne was surprised to hear a pleasant
voice behind her say: You aren't get.
ting tired of me. are you?" and she
vas vas confronted by handsome young
dent, dent, hardly any older than herself
,",Why, | don't know" she answered
put don't think | could. Suppose yoI
r Sis down @ FOR a while and rest you look
warm with that sweater on. y"
AZ don't mind If l do" he answered
no end of comfort in it, and every lime
!. ! put 1t on | think of the girl who made
tbsnn y ano h WONDER ir will ever meet her to
You see he explained. II got this
from The Red Cross unit when II visited
our station over there" as he pointed
across the bay, and in the pocket I
FOUND the cheeriest little note and it was
think? N'' ~"
I'd Just love to meet that girl" he
continued but suppose she Is en-
wouldn't be any chance for an old
twenty-three !" '
oh, I wouldn't call myself a bachelor
though did feel like calling myself a
spinster the other day, when the doctor
refused to allow me to knit and ] am
Two years your junior" consoled Rose
bav f9H dids, said os, you We're from across the
! wonder II you know student over
there by the name of Earl Morgan.
am Just dying to meet him ever since
read about his saving those two children
actly the kind of man l would like. but
| cant seem to be able to find out much
about him from my brother, who is sta
toned at the radio school, because every
time ! ask him about the hero (as ] call
him) he laughs and says, oh, your
dream will come true and you'll meet
your hero Some day."
Both sat occupied with their own
thoughts, Rose wondering what the
young man would say when he found
out that she was Rose w. and the
young man in turn was meditating on
what she had said and would say when
she discovered he was Earl Morgan, for
the young radio student was none other
than the hero of the episode at Carter's
Cove
Rose was the first to break the ST.
lence. MY, but l wish today wouln
day"
We'll. think 1t looks as IL 1t would"
said her brother, happening along in
time to catch her remark.
Morgan, allow me to introduce you
to my sister Rose. the mysterious knit
ter of the sweater that now adorns your
heroic body" said Clayton. as he laugh
ingly introduced the two, and then aou-
ed: I'm sorry / can't stay and enter
tain you two, but by the looks of
And six months later, when their en-
gagement was announced, Earl said 4:
Well Rose, there was a chance for an
old bachelor of twenty-threA like me.
after all, wasn't there? "Well, / should
think there ought to have been for "a
hero" answered Rose.
'I'll bless the Red Cross as long as
live, and, Just to show our appreciation
OF Its noble work, l am going to send
II a generous check in our name" con-
fded Earl few minutes later, as his
arms encircled his wife-to-be in a loving
embrace.
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