The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-11
FULL MEASURE.
By Mrs. Lillian Z. Leonard,

Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc)
You must know that a sad
dreamy eyed type requires fnesse
and a resort to romantic methods
to win. You don't know how to do
it, that is all. Now watch mel"
This speech had been preceded
by an ejaculation made by the
younger of the two men, sitting at
an adjacent desk in the pleasant
Office.
Partners in q business that seem
ed to give them plenty of spare
time for dallying even in business
hours, their fayorite Indoor sport
being mild flirtations with those
females who had become wise as
to the depth of their intention and
consequently rather tame pastime.
it was with strenuous efforts they
tried to capture the attention of
any stranger or newcomer to their
floor.
Innocent, possibly in intent. but
nevertheless trivial and somewhat
cheap. so thought a recent arrival
in the next roOm-a sad. dreamy
eyed, well preserved woman of ma
ture years, who had opened a mil
linery shop next door.
The younger man had tried ey-
cry means to become acquainted.
but beyond a cool smile. nod, or
passing greeting, he had made abb
solutely no Roadway.
SO the elder man took a hand in
this flippant pastime of capturing
a passing fancy. and he tried the
romantic, mysterious way that his
romantic, mysterious way that his
A rosebud through her letter slot
greeted her in the morning, a blank
card, sometimes. A box of flowers
delivered late in the afternoon from
mysterious source. He had the
satisfaction of seeing his flowers
in water in place of honor; but
he did not know that the woman
had heard that that was habitual
custom Of his to try to soften the
heart of the fair sex with the
touching presentation of a flower,
and she had no delusions as from
whence these sudden attentions
proceeded.
So it was an inwardly amused
he could see, but no hint of her
amusement looked from her sad
eyes as they casually met in the
halk Her bow and greeting were,
il anything, cooler.
Then one day tall, blonde man,
somewhat younger than the woman
came along the hall His step was
faltering and there was a strange,
cropping movement to his hands,
yet he went straight to the door
marked "Maison. Halter" where a
cry. of rapture greeted him. The
door was quickly closed and o2ly a
continuous joyous murmur could
be heard.
The shop was closed for the re-
mainder of the day. and together
they were lost to sight
Though silent. uncommunicative
and aloof in the time of trouble,
hiding Spartan-like. her exquisite
torture of uncertainty through
most gri11ing ordeal: in the glow
expanded and had to give out of
her happiness and relief from a
corroding anxiety.
so the news spread ike Wll0nre
through the building, for human
nature, prone to gossip, is the game
in an Office building as elsewhere.
Eyes, my baby brother was in
France. she told a neighbor. Had
suffered a peculiar affliction; was
struck totally blind while in action
Nothing could be done to relieve
him. He was examined by noted
specialists who diagnosed the case
as paralysis of the optic nerve re-
sul-ipg from shock.
Slime time he might regain sight.
but they held out no certainty of
hope.