The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-03-12
Didn't Call Ii
Puppy Love
BY RUBY DOUGLAS

thetic about the amount OF love
that Arthur Emmerson bestowed upon
his dogs. One couldn't help feeling
that there was so much to give, In
this big. splendid man, that ii should
have been lavished upon human beings
as well as upon dumb animals.
His oldest collie, Lad, never left
him, whether he drove or slept or
worked at his desk. Little Lady was
q stay-at-home but she was affection
ate and constant When Arthur's wife
had died, il seemed as IL the dogs
knew he was grieving and were even
more watchful of his comings and
goings. The sympathy they extended
when they laid their long, aristocratic
noses in his lap and looked up into
his eyes, meant more to him than the
words of many persons. 1t was three
years now since Arthur and the dogs
had made their home alone together
and they had been faithfully tended
by a housekeeper who understood
Little Lady added gayety to one cold
winter morning by presenting her mas
ter with i've beautiful fluffy collie
pups. There was much rejoicing and
Lady was fed on the finest milk In
the harder and great hopes were
| planned for her offspring.
They're show dogs-every one"
said the big owner TO the rather dis
concerted collie, Lad. Lad was no re
lation to the pups but he wandered
about with lordly air that morning
as If he were proud to be in the house
with so good-looking a litter Of pup
pies
Events frequently cast their shad-
ows beforehand, and 1t was not so
long before Arthur Emmerspn found
himself showing two OF Lady's pup
pies at the county dog show.
He did not like to put his pets into
the tiny kennels in which they are
kept while they are being admired by
the public and shown 20 fanciers but
he managed his business so that he
could spend a great deal Of time dur
Ing those three days at the show.
He's a beautiful animal" a soft
voice said at his elbow one afternoon
when Count. one Of the pups. had won
q blue ribbon in his class
Arthur turned to confront a most
attractive woman. He grasped his
cap awkwardly. "Yes-he's a lovely
collie"
There followed much dog talk. Miss
Vail, too, was a lover of dogs and this
was the third time she had shown
her pets. Her home was in the oppo-
site end Of the county and she and
Arthur Emmerson had never met nor
heard OF each other. This was not
strange even with their common in
terest because Arthur, as a married
man up till three years ago, had never
gone out of the little town circle Of
his wife's friends; Miss Vail. recov-
ering from an unhappy love affair.
had retired from society entirely.
Arthur walked with her TO see her
dogs. and before they parted each had
| given the other card and promised TO
exchange visits when either motored
IN the direction Of the other.
"And IL you ever have another litter
OF puppies that has a collie half as
fine as this Count, do let me have
him" said Edna Vail when she left.
A few letters were exchanged be-
tween the two who had met at the
dog show and, in the interest Of their
hobbies, they met again The almost
instant recognition OF a loneliness In
the mans eyes that Edna Vail had
detected as she watched him looking
ut his pets became, when she saw
him again. a certain knowledge. And
with this feeling that here was
lonely man. her sympathy went out
to him. Perhaps she did not know It.
but they were In the same state OF
emotions. He was just beginning TO
react 70 the world after losing COM
panion and she was realizing that the
world is not completely lost because
one romance has paled into nothing
ness.
Neither the man nor the woman was
experiencing a first love and thus Ii
dawned on them very slowly that a
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lives. Perhaps they both fought IL,
true to an ideal that had gone. Per-
haps that was why it was nearly two
years after they had met that Arthur
finally asked Edna to marry him one
night as they drove through the lovely
county In which they lived A moon
silvered the pine trees and shimmered
on the river below them
'T wonder If that moon will always
shine so silvery for us. Edna" said
Arthur in a deep, serious tone she had
learned to love more than anything
else about him.
"why notT' she asked, her voice
~ trembly as IL she were eighteen
and this was her first proposal.
TT seems almost, after we have
passed through many sorrows. as IL
we never could be quite 50 optimistic
again"
Maybe not, but we understand bet
ter how to-to look at life In all its
fuIIness, Arthur" she said. "We have
lived a bit before this moment"
perhaps that's why 1t seems a
higher peak than any have climbed
yet, dear, and 1t makes me a little
| afraid"
After a long time Edna took her
head from his shoulder and laughed
srTEF,a+ a. ffSss he asked accustomed