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An Old Friend
From the West
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS
fc . McClare Nwie,.r 8)n,lict.)
Not uvlna; tliut adventure, la
trip form of a suuall white card, was
wall In hi in Jut over his own
threshold, young Lfcutor Guvlu mei-pcd
wlihln his apartment.
The ainall white pnatertonrd at
tracted hia eye even liefore he en
tered. He picked It up and rvud:
'Urate Darling: Will be expeetlng
you and Birfil.y on Friday at ix. Sor
ry you are not In."
Thin wan scratched In pencil across
the face of the card which further In
formed the young doctor that Helen
Moore was the caller and her tele
phone number was I'laza 2111K
Now Doctor Gavin felt that at a
stretch he might be the "darling" but
he tnoet certulnly could not be Grace.
Deductions then assured htm thnt
Helen Moore had made a mistake and
pushed her card under the wrong door.
"Hut who Is Grace? And must 1
make a round of all the apartments
in this building In order that Helen's
message reach Its rightful darling, or,"
mid the doctor knew his second in
spiration was going to be the one car
ried out, "I w 111 call up the young
lady and ask who 'darling' is so that I
may deliver the message and take
more rIiouIiI Helen's voice strike a
ylbrant cord In my mnnly breast." The
doctor lifted his prized telephone and
called Plur.a 2.110.
It wasn't every one nowadays who
could boast u telephone.
The voire that traveled over the
Wire was delightful. Upon making tils
reasons for. calling her up known she
seemed most grateful.
"It Is Mrs. Ilerkley," Helen Moore'
Paid, "and I must have thought the
front was the back. They have Just
moved In and have no telephone,. It
"What Part of th West Do You Come
From?"
Is so awkwaid. Yes, If you would be
so very kind. Yes. I will hold the
wire."
Doctor Gnrin beat a hasty exit to the
other apartment on his landing and
Tom Berkley answered bin knock. His
excuses for intrusion being mule, he
asked If Mrs. Berkley would like to
talk with Miss Moore.
Mrs. Berkley, the Grace Dhrllng of
the card. api-ared flushed and lovely
from the kitchenette.
That vas only the beginning of
numerous messages that Dr. Gavin
bore to the other apartment. It seemed
as if Helen and Grace bud endless
tilings to say to one anotlw-r after six
In the evening, the hour tl'at the doc
tor reached home.
Three weeks Inter lie was, as he
vulgarly expressed It, "thick" with the
Berkleys. They liked him and he
liked them. In the back of her mar
ried heart Grace already had her best
chum Hnd the very ilellfrhtful doctor
happily in the matrimonial noose. She
did not, however, confld In any one.
Helen Moore wus naturally curious
as to the geiierul ase.-t of the man
who so kindly acted as messenger and
Grace always willingly expounded his
charm, but that charm was totally the
reverse tyi? of Dr. Gavin. Helen had
confessed to a thrilly feeling over the
affair and had an unexpressed desire
to meet the bearer of messages.
' , The day was fust approaching when
Doctor Gavin realized that a meeting
was Inevitable. He wanted It, yet was
curlvusly panicky at the very mention
of a foursome dinner, often casually
auggested by Tom Berkley.
"Doctor Gavin." said Grace after
mature thought, "will you come In and
have dinner with us tomorrow night?
Helen Is coming and I know you feel
n Pit squinny r.hout actually meeting
her, so I have quite a nice little Idea.
1 will tell Helen that you are Jack
Inline, an old fiend of mine from the
West whom I particularly want her to
meet." She smiled her crinkly, al
" luring smile and Doctor Gavin fell for
It without hesitation.
"I'm sorry 1 wasn't about at the
time Tom was courting you." be
luughed.' "He wouldn't hav'e atood a
chance."
Grace blushed. "Walt until you see
Helen." she laughed,
bo he did wait p id with fear and
Ian." Fortunately, be had a bit of
cold and Ma voice was sufficiently
unlike Doctor Gavin'a to decelva Helen
completely.
Helen must certainly was all anj
man could eximt from the feminine
orld. Her hair was softly brown,
here eyes wide and Intelligent and her
gown exquisite. Also her tonsil was
contagious. Doctor Gavin found him
self hurriedly and precipitately full
ing In love.
And Helen liked the friend from th
West even though her ear was keyed
to each footstep In the hall. She some
bow felt disappointed that the doctor
made no real attempt to know Iter.
She turned suddenly toward the doc
tor. "What part of the West do you come
from?" she asked.
Not being .prepared be took a ran
dom shot
"Cedar Itapld. Iowa." he lied beau
tlfully, never having even passed
through the charmlmt mid-West city.
"No I IteallyJ Grace didn't tell me
that. I was born there."
And then the doctor was in for It
lroperly. Such a volley of questions
and Inquiries and so flat and disap
pointing were the answers that fol
lowed that Helen was more than a lit
tle suspicious that he had never seen
the word (Vdar ltnpids printed even.
She turned from him a trine annoyed.
The doctor was in a line position
for a man who has Just decided that
he has met the only girl and looked
around desperately for relief.
Suddenly a telephone boll rang and
rang.
Helen heard It and her heart flut
tered. Tom looked worried, Grace
startled and only Dot-tor Gavin seemed
pleased.
"If you'll excuse me I must answer
my phone might be nn Important
call like-some others of recent date."
He sllpjK'd out before a word wa
spoken.
"Grace! How could you?" Helen
luirst forth. "Von said be was dark
and Flmrt and had a mustaches' ami
he's sandy and wonderfully built and.
and " but Helen stopped and blushed.
"Anyway, I tike him so there."
"I knew yon would." laughed Grace
and Tom wore a disgusted look. He
knew that the women folks were up
to matchmaking and couldn't let n
poor, harmless doctor alone to be
happy.
And on the way home In the doc
tor's cozy coupe Helen said with an
unsteady laugh, "I have given yi a
good deal of trouble, doctor, by hav
ing made that mistake."
"Yes. and you will have to give me
more than trouble before our accounts
are straightened out. I I
"We hnve only met tonight." warned
Helen, but her voice held more of en
ticement to continue than she was
quite awnre of.
MORE LIKE CURIOSITY SHOP
Library In Chief Town of the Fiji
Islands That Was Remarkablo
in M?ny Ways.
Perched up on the sixth floor of a
Manhattan apartment house I cast my
mind back over my wanderings of the
past few years and recall various
libraries that I have known.
For sheer grotesquerle, the palm
belongs to a library in Suva, chief
town of the Fiji islands. It was a
little, low, wooden building and was
open only three eveiUngs a week. You
walked to It by way jf Victoria parade,
a broad acacia-shade boulevard which
skirled the waterfront, passing Flji
(Uis with their elaborate high coiffure
and splndlelegged Hindus toting the
Inevitable umbrella.
In the reading room sundry of the
Kuropean or Australasian inhabi
tants, arrayed In white 'duck, sat
ubout reading by the flickering light
of oil lamps ancient copies of Punch
and the Illustrated London News. The
books were as old as the magazines.
I once asked the librarian what he
had In the way of late literature, and
he suggested Darwin's "Origin of
Sjiecles."
Such books as were available, more
over, I. ad suffered considerably from
the attacks of the whit ant, which
hail industriously bored through the
pages.
The librarian' himself was so old
that If he bail claimed Homer as a
contemporary It would have been quite
credible. A dignified dowager would
occasionally arrive with a Fijian "boy"
In tow. The native hung respectfully
outside until the dowager emerged
with a few books, which she handed
to iiiiu. New York Times.
, Flameproof Motors.
Experiments have been under way
in Kngland with a view to rinding a
means of protecting motors and other
electrical equipment with a form ot
enclosure which, although affording
a vent to relieve tlte force of an in
ternal explosion, would not communi
cate a flame to the outside. Results
have been obtained by flange, gauze
and plate projection, but it 8 pilars
that further research Is necessary be
fore there Is, conclusive evidence that
any particular design can be relied
upon to produce complete protection.
There Is a genuine demand for a flame
proof motor in uiode.-n coal mining
operations. In chemical work dim in
motion picture laboratories where vast
musses of highly InttHinniable film are
Imperiled by the proximity of unpro
tected motors. Scientific American.
Aa to Poverty.
"Tea. I have read bis poetry, but I
can't get any sense out of It."
"And why should yon expect to get
sense out of a poeti ? Tou have quter
ideas about poetry, 1 uiukl aaj."
Uivision Lngmccr s
Office is to Remain
Over at the Bluffs
Judgmg from the following story,
which appeared in the ScotUblufT Re
publican of last Tuesday, somrone has
been making efforts to steal the state
highway division office from that city.
The Republican mentions Bridgeport
and Alliance as among the towns that
will be disgruntled when they find the
office is to remain in the sugar city,
although this is the fim intmation
Alliance has had that this city was
being considered as a possible loca
tion. The Republican said:
"Iteflnite word was received in
FcottsblufT Tuesday, it was announced
by Secretary II. S. Stark of the
Chamber of Commerce, that the Divi
sion Engineer a office will be retained
in ScottsblufT.
"This statement puts at rest the im
pression which had prevailed that it
was the intention of the state office at
Lincoln to remove the local office to
Bridgeport, or Alliance.
"It is quite gratifying to the people
of this section that the officials of
the public roads department at Lincoln
recognize in this way the fact that
Scottsbluff is the logical point for such
headquarters in western Nebraska,
and back up this belief, by the above
decision to maintain the office here.
"The word came from Secretary
Johnson, of the state offices in Lincoln
and thus brings assurance that Divi
sion Engineer A. E. Usddis, and his
three assistants will remain on the
job at this place. Their offices are on
the second floor of the chamber of
commerce building."
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