The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-24
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 The story deals with BfrmfnEh nm's future.
 Robert LandOn, at IA, begins to awake to young manhood. The son of a poor woman, he does not lead an envfabIe existence, but citizen ship and what 1t means avaIks in his soul. Aloud, he vows that he will be a great man.
 A rend-haired child hears him, and much to Bob's embarrassment, speaks out and encourages the idea. He loses her after a boyish promise he will make good for her sake. An automobile whisks her away before he learns her name.
 Bob becomes an architect and real estate man. He plans to build a series of giant electrical figures above the city which will be mag Dificent to look upon from the top of Red mountain. TwinkIing lights, he feels, are tame. He hopes to see only castles, municipal buildings, houses of God, vast auditorfums, statues, public and state buildings erected along Red mountains crest all of them to be of stone and marble. Their spires, turrets, towers and artistic beauty, he feels, would forever be an inspiration when Bir-
 
 their eyes to look upon them. A broad and magnificent thoroughfare should traverse the mOuntuin,s ton, He thinks colonial types of houses belong rightly to southern cIfmes- not western bungaIows-and builds his towns in this style.
 One day, on the street, he sees the red-haired girl again, but once more she escapes him. In seeking her he accidentally meets Annette Kingston, young society girl. Mary witnesses the meeting, without recognizinx Bob. Mary is being pressed to marry Herbert McAI1ister.
 Bob persuades Mir. EIbertou. prom inent financier. to come to Rirm,ur- ham and build a home from hfs draw ing of the ghost house. He finds n child model for his main electrical figure. He and Annette become great friends. Having seized n dog. on the street, yvhich proves to he Mary Trevor's. the red-haired xirI announces a desire never to ace Rob again Bob is welcomed into the Eiberfon home like a son. He acci- dentaily encounters the red-haired siri again with Annette. Disregard ,ng her desire that he let her alone, bob wordlessly, frankly idoltxes ber
 
 rather than encounter him again. Sbr does not realize he loves her. Mean whfie, Hobs sick mother mysterfou.Ix disappears. He cannot find any trace of her.
 Chapter XIII
 But an additional thing of such ex- eruciating agony suddenly 1oomed un- on the horizon of Bob's life, and polsea there like an ominous spectre. that even the terrific blow and at tendant anxious worry over his nofh- err disappearance was, for the mo- ment, thrust into the background.
 Annette was responsible for the news of 1t, and other complications. Bob had accidently stumbled upon her one lunch hour as, like a slender young gazelle, she was descending the steps of the Southern club. When She caught sight of him, she left everybody behind to rush upon him, both hands extended.
 In her eagerness, however and by a trick of fate, her little foot. in its cunning high slipper. caught upon the steps. In flash her ankle twist ed and crumpjled and she fell head long upon the pavement at his feet.
 To the Hospital
 Amid excited exclamation of q doz- en women acquaintances, Bob picked Annette up in his arms and bore her to his automobile.
 He requested two or three of them to accompany him in rush to the South Highlands infirmary for imme- diate examination.
 Annette had tainted from the pain, but not until she had opened her eyes to gaze rapturously for a mo- ment into his own. Bob was com- pelled to hold her with her head upon his shoulder, as an obliging man acquaintance drove the car.
 While it was all he could do--and the decent thing-neverthel 1t be- came an awkward situation for him. The reason was that the ladies in the car assumed an attitude that Bob as more to Annette-and Annette to him-than acquaintance or friend. They treated him somewhat after. the manner of fiance, and politely considerate, unobtrusively turned their attention from him, as though to give him these precious moments alone with her.
 Bob undertook to correct this. He forced their attention to the young woman's pallor- He asked their ad- vice in sustaining her. It devolved upon him., since he had her in his arms, to carry her into the hospital, where she was placed upon wait ing examination table.
 Thereupon he could not leave her.