The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-06-25
Those Helping
Hands
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BY DOROTHY DOUGLAS
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DuSIHeSS TERMS tripping lRnuy from
her brothers lips. She was being in
structed in her duties at the office
that day and was trying her best to
absorb intelligently that which was
being impaired to her.
Rod, her brother, was jotting down
the important telephone numbers and
names on the edge of his morning pa
pers and Amy felt that she would get
through the day nicely. so comprehen-
sively was Rod noting down her duties
for her.
Amy was spending a few weeks In
London during the trip abroad her
father had given her and Rods
stenographer being away Amy had
agreed to 60 into his office and help
where she could. Rod had to be out
a good part of the day and it left the
responsibility on Amy's shoulders.
When they got of the train at Llv-
erpool street, Rod dived down to the
left for his underground train and
Amy went out toward her bus.
When she saw the big box waiting
for newspapers to be collected for the
wards in hospitals she dropped her
own In from force of habit as did
many more of the suburbanites. 1t
was simple and natural bit Of char
ity to indulge in.
1t wasn't until Amy entered Rods
office and sat down at his big desk
that she remembered with a nervous
start that she had flung away all his
carefully jotted instructions for the
day. They had been on the edge of
the newspaper and there was no way
of getting it back.
She called herself every name under
the sun and wondered what she should
do, and hoped Rod would not lose
pile of business through her stupidity.
She remembered that there were sew
eral most important phone calls to
make.
1t was perhaps an hour and a half
before the telephone rang and mans
voice spoke to her. After making sure
he had the right number and asking
Cor r. Dalton the man seemed not to
KNOW just now TO commune.
las a matter of fact" he said, 1--WE
called up on the chance that your Mr..
Dalton left his paper in the hospital
box this morning"
oh breathed Amy joyOusly over
the phone. Il have been nearly dis
tracted over the loss Of the notes on
that paper. Is there any possible way
in which it could be sent to me?
cannot leave the Office"
The young man at the other end Of
the telephone rather liked the sound
Of Amy's voice, and, since his time was
his own, he said: "I'll just bring 1t
along myself Be there in about quar-
ter of an hour"
When he came into the office later
Amy noted with satisfaction that the
young mans eyes showed distinct ap-
prOval.
He explained Immediately the man
ner in which the paper had come to him.
Il went to see a chap in hospital
who had come down in that air crash
I escaped with only bruise or two.
Well, this paper was handed him BY
his nurse this morning and the first
thing he saw were these notes. When
I arrived to see him we talked it over
and decided they might be important
and we looked through the telephone
book for DaltOns-yOu see his name
had been written in the corner for the
delivery boy I suppose.
You and your friend are some little
Sherlocks." laughed Amy.
at was rather quite simple But
Sid insisted on my calling up. He said
anyone who was thoughtful enough to
send his paper to poor suffering pa
tients in hospital was worth helping.
So-here am. Is Mr.. Dalton t,in n
NO" said Amy, that's the whole
trouble. am trying for a day or two
to hold down my brothers Office chair
and don't know any more about bust
ness than you perhaps know about
knitting sweaters. He wrote me down
those instructions for today so you
may know how badly | have needed
them. 1t is too awfully kind Of you
to have brought them over"
Amy looked up and smiled quite
frankly and exquisitely into Frank
Davenport's eyes. 1t did the trick
completely. Frank decided then and
there to stay in London untR the ship
sailed that caTEed Rod Dalton's sister
back to the LAND. Of her birth.
"I Sav-dO Won 4think 7 couId halr
you out in any wat? I'm as free as
the birds and wouldebe only too glad
to get my hands on a little Office
work"
"Ohi" gasped Amy really delighted
at the thought, but things like that
aren't done-are they?"
"They sure can be done. Come, tell
me all you know about your brothers
business so that / can talk at least
with halfway intelligence If anyone
calls"
There was no doubt about the com
binatlon being happy one and Amy
fell to wondering how any perfectly
strange man could grasp things SO
swiftly and handle business so know
ingly as did Frank Davenport. But
then, mems brains are different, she
decided and realized that If It had
been a case of herself going in to help
some strange girl In her fiat with O
baby It would have been just as simple
to her as it would have been difficult
to a man.