Show Daily Short Fiction Story HIS FOLLY By GRACE B KERRIGAN Cop Copyright I ht 1015 Ins by the McClure Newspaper News Newspaper paper Syndicate It was I Dan Archers Archer's mother who gave e I ray away IIa the secret of or tho the bungalow bungalo on th the tho 0 hill hili where Dan worked ear early and late Dan to get mn married repeated d Mrs Irs Archer Archer In response to an Inquisitive e fitly neighbor No Xo Indeed Mrs Irs Blake Blak Dans Dan's s never cr kept company compan with a 1 girl In his lif Ufe e not not but what whal I want him to Ret get mar mar- tIed ried If It ho Igo can 11 find the right girl but bu t certainly I would know If Ir r any one did Of or cou course you would n agreed Mrs Mr Blake but It teems seems so queer for him t to be building a bungalow alow up there on hl Ills his s lot spending t e every spare minute of or hi his s ss time on It H. H and doing er c every stitch of or wor orl k unless himself himself unless s hI ho was KOWK horng forn to live Jive In n l It It t. t Perhaps he will wm rent It It with happy In In- In n- n a Mss Mrs Archer Anchor shook her heal hen head lie Ile sa says s 's ys not If It you'll promise e not to breathe a n word Mrs Blake k BI Blake O Of 0 cout course e I wont won't Interrupted Mr Mrs s. s Blake Blakc excitedly Well Fell he h h says rays a h he's hes a groin oln to have t t th he herl home ready and and- when the right gi ctrl rl comes come th then n hell he'll get set married It HV t a foolish thing to do hut but Dan is if a go goo good d td bo box and If IC he enjoys building a ne nSf s' s before lit lit- finds a n mate wh why I cant can't compIa complain com corn pIa plain In Mrs Ir A Archer Teher laughed y No Xo o tJ replied l Ir Mrs Blake a and then hastening her departure she trans tr transmitted transmitted fat fai and th the tha Intelligence o of Dan Archers Archer's purpose In building the little brown bungalow on the tIte hill hm west of or his fathers father's hou house e. e And before another day da- had dawned the Joo good gossips of oC Crystal Brook were chuckling Dan Dnn over Archers Archer's folly roll as they called caned hl his undertaking Many a Cr Crystal Brook girl would ouM have hl gladly occupied th brown bronn f on 0 the hill hili h Dan Archer Arch was WaR s sucha such uch n a rE l in man n that hl his neighbor tilt called him dull and nd stupid In suite of ot the fact tact that Dan was something of or a dreamer It was admitted that he was a 1 practical farmer and ha had 1 made his fa fathers father's tather ta- ta ther's ther acres yield yleM more than thc they ever er had before Dan went ent away to a t ural tural coli college I t So Archers Archer's tony folly rather a Joke In tho the villace but hut Dan Archer knew noth In ing of oC It Few would have havo Hared flared to hint the tho words to th the steady eyed young plant giant who went a about out his nest building so FO earnestly earnestly earn earn- estly without a 1 thought as to tho the absurd absurd- i ity It ts' ts of ot hl his endeavor When hen tho brown bungalow bun was as completed com corn completed Dan Archer stood In the little living room and pondered the question of ot fur Cur Ill furnish the little study v for fOl m myself elC he lie decided but hut she ehe must havo o a a. hand han in selecting the other things s. s Whereupon ho lie foil fell to dreaming about tho mysterious unknown bride whom he would some da day bring to the tho bungalow alow day day day- Ill meet her somewhere sumo some and everything o will be ba res ready 3 said Dan conten contentedly contentedly- But nut the summer waned and tn autumn came and went and snow bno Ja lay on tho the ground People saw the light burning In InDan's InDans Dan's Dans cozy COy study on the hilltop and they shrugged their shoulders and remarked I what a n beacon Archers Archer's folly Jy made mado at I night wind There There- came a night when the tho around tho the bungalow and 1 tho snow ho howled snow beat against the walls until the they were ere co covered cored red with a thIck white mantle Mrs Mrs locking up the doors of oC the farmhouse farmhouse farmhouse farm farm- Archer Acher house b below low looked up at the tho bung bun bungalow alo 1 na and decided d that Dan would probably spend pend th tho tha night up there At that Instant instant in instant In- In signal In Inthe stant she ehe saw faw his customary the tho w window so she an answered It with a a. flash of her lamp and bolted the last door There Thare wax ar a fireplace In Dans Dan's study I nn and a great Ireat pile of at hickory logs foes as t v t a comfortable couch t so fO o on certain when hell h he ho had been studying close would decide to sleep there On this stormy night Dan turned from the window and replenished tl th Then he prepared for or bc bed J leaving lm a 1 ed etl lantern In the thc window of ot tho tiro room Its It a bad rod night outside he lIe mu red While the little village e slept f und and drifting mantle mantic of oC lino snow n a hors sleigh Iel h moved mO slowly lowly through h the tho that thai led from th the tha next village lI the horse stopped and br hr II heavily and once one It almost fell feU I tucks tracks Uncle Nathan Im I'm afraid that cant can't go 10 much farther quavered qua a sweet voice Arc re re you ou very near neal t tha e doctor doctors I ly 11 Tho old oft mans man's voice oleo Bound sounded d fled from Its thick wrappings of ot comforter Im afraid I dont don't know kno an and nn on nl na i fl f. 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J DAILY SHORT STO STORY Y I Continued from pago paRo 7 7 time limo th tits tha girls girl's voice oleo held a note of or de despair tic tic- We e a are aie off orr the main road raid and I cant can't see eee a n thins thing ail ah there Is la u It ll ht L tat At st u us turn toward It there It-there there must bo be a 11 I If we can reach It perhaps we ve can send for or a 1 doctor from there The fhe wind tore her wor words s Into tro fragments fraK- fraK ments but tho the old man understood stood so he crouched do down don n among amons the fur robes while Folly ur urged ed tho the ho horse home to gi greater enter efforts I At last it Sorrel toll tolled d up a a. steep hill and dropped l exhausted l between tho the shafts shaHs with the guiding light only a arc few feet ct distant Its It a 11 house on a hill explained Fo- Fo a as she sho helped d h her r undo from tho the sleigh At that moment t tho e front door opened and a lantern was wan thrust forth followed follow b by the much tousled head of a n. sleepy sleeN young roun man It was a 0 half hour later Inter from the doctor doctor doctor doc doc- tor whom Dan had summoned by bj telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone from his hla fathers father's house that Dan Archer heard beard the story of or and her Uncle UncIa Nathan The lived live In to the adjoining village Ul vil- 11 lage Jage of Upton Center and the only physician phy- phy In the village had been called away on an urgent case caso so o that when Uncle Nathan cut himself with m gut n ax Felicia could only bind up the wound as ns b best st ehe she might and then bundling bundling- the old ohI man Into a sleight sleigh strive 1 to reach Crystal Costal Brook t three rt- rt miles away l la a But the thO now torn had delayed their pro progress and bewildered by br the flying nak flakes old ohl Sorrel had wandered from the road time lime and again until It was tuns 10 o'clock when the they discovered the beacon light In Archers Archer's Folly By daylight Uncle Undo Nathan had bc been n ma made a veer verY verv comfortable and the Uio doctor having bavin having tak taken his departure Mrs Archer took the tho weary girl down to the farmhouse farm farm- house and tucked her Into b bed d while Dan nan after arter stabling Sorrel went event back tl to t keep n vigil by the Injured man manDan Dan came down to breakfast with Fe- Fe o eUcla e- e Ucla and his ills he heart quickened as 36 he saw that she was lS as 35 beautiful as he had thought thoU her the night before Brown Browneyes headed dimpled charmine charm- charm i eyes ves curly anI and Ing silo ine she was all these and more sho she was as ass s sweet leet t and gentle and shy BO so that Dan fell feU more In tn love with her each passing moment moment and blessed th the tho beacon light In Inthe the risen en lit Ir Archer learned th that Uncle Urcle Na Nathan than called lIed his niece Foil Folly II she Imm Im- Im Immediately m mediately confided tI the fact to Dan and added the tho information that his nel neighbors neighbor c. 11 called Dans Dan's bungalow by the nickname of Archers Foil Archers Foll Folly chuckled chuckle Dan with dancing eyes ejes es T That at sounds pretty good to n m me mother And hi hl his mother marveled mar mar- ele at Ws 11 meanings while Dan added wonder If It She Se would mind himself himself- I I would to neing called Archers Archer's Folly Folly- 7 r rHo Ho all ashod od her ono one da day and her hr anser anser an- an so sa satisfactory that t the they set ser was as about Tannin planning how hor the bungalow should furnish furnished be am Vo saved I It t till r I came I I am to O glad lad d you while they planned Folly FoIl I f new Knew you ou would come some ome da day pan Dan contentedly declared How dId you J know know- she he 3 asked ked wide wide- eyed e deep Into her brown eyes Ho and fell before the tho wavered until the theY then 1 tn hi hIs steady blue on ones know kno sweetheart he be No NOW 1 do you whispered Yes answered Archers Archer 8 Folly Foly |