The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-03
FOUR DANCING FEET
TIM MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT
BY JANE PHELPS
Chapter AZ.

TIM MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT.
Chapter AZ.
| Gertie went to bed delighted that
the affair had turned out as it had
Yet she shivered with dread several
times before she slept Why should
she have so many unpleasant things
happen her? Lilly never did, and
Lilly wouldn't have minded half so
| much If there had. That rumpus at
the table, and now this. She wonder
ed idly what would happen next; her
mother always said things rain in
| three's.
I'm awful glad for myself, and for
| Ma" she murmured. While the
mother tossed on her pillow and mutt
tered: My heart would have broke if
| they'd arrested her-my grill"
1t is a mistake to think that poverty
mean ca11ousness. Had one looked
| the world over no more devoted
daughter, no more loving mother
would one have found Even ignor-
the greatest thing in the world. And
this uneducated mother worshiped her
daughter, her pretty lass whose beauty
always had made her afraid for her.
Gertie slept all the day long. When
she went into the dressing room at
F'agin'S fresh, rested, lovely, she looked
anNously about for signs of the pro-
prietor. He might have heard of the
II dCdS, Hight ne angry But every
thing went as usual, and Murphy took
her to the subway. Lilly had called
at Fagin's so she would not let him go
all the way home with her.
You sure have caught a fish this
time, Gertie, a big one. He's in love
with you. Won't turn him down like
you did ONConRor, will you? If you
do I'll take him. Gertie and her
mother had decided to say nothing OF
the incident of the previous night.
All right, Lilly, you can have him.
I like him. He's nice and polite, but
I don't care for him, not like you
mean"
Il see nothin' but a Prince will do
for you! And you won't be jealous or
mad if I flirt with him?'
Not bit! Flirt all you want to-
But Lilly, don't get mad if I tell you
something will you?"
''No-fire awayi"
he's-different from some of
the felIows-he-I am sure he would
mt like girl he thought-was-Wor
ing him. You aren't mad because
said that?@
Not on your life! If work him
it will bs for a wedding ring. Honest,
Cert, I'm sick of -bein' poor. 1 have
to be stylish or no one pays any atten-
yesterday because 1 bought this hat,
you like it?''
It's lovely, Lilly, and so becoming.
But we ought to help at home-both
OIL uS"DSCauSe we've no IaIneTS-
guess it is pretty hard to be left with
a lot of children and TO father to help !
take care of them. catch ma looking
at pas picture and wiping her eyes
once in a while
81 amt easy like you, Cert I can't |
be I like pretty things and if I earn |
them I'm going to have them. A girl |
has to be stylish.,'
1t wasn't always easy for Gertie.
At noon the next day a scuffling
was heard on the stairs-voices:
There go easy. There that's bet
ter" groan, mere talk.
What's the matter ma? Guess I'll
go and see what's going on Gertie
opend the door into the hall just as
two men carrying Tim stopped before |
it; Tim white, his lips set in a grim
line to keep from screaming at the
pain.
"Oh, what is it?' she gasped, then
'Ma-oh, ma! Tins hurt"
Hurried! my Tim. There aisy now,
me men," her brogue coming out clear
you, me boy?" she helped lay him on
the bed. her face whitening as the I
groans broke from her boys lips.
He was struck by a car. He saw
a little girl in danger and pulled her
away, but it hit him. His legs broke.
Better get a DOCTOR
I'll get one, ma" Gertie hurried
out. There was a medical man only
q snort distance away ana II ne were
at home he could help Tim right away
give him something to stop the pain.
Fortunately he was in and returned
with Gertie. He set the broken leg,
and left Tim easier, expressing his
sympathy by charging only nominal
fee He had known the Cummings
family for years
That night as Lilly and Gertie went
to work Lilly said:
when you going to buy that new
dress and hat you told me about,
Gert?''
That's gone to set Tins leg"
''What'd you mean ?"
The dress and hat have to go into
Tim now, Lily He can't sell papers
with a broken leg. and he'll have to
have medicine and the DOCTOR
well. I don't see as it does you
much good to earn money! You1l
never be stylish if you give It all to
your family
Mas prophecy had come true-this
was the third unpleasant happening.
(To be continued.) II
isn't it perfectly wonderful that
we can sit here in our own home and
listen to a lecture or a sermon hun
ireds of miles away"
Yes, and the best part of it is that