Show Daily Sh Short rt I Fic Fiction on Story EMILY'S OFFER I IBy By KEITH KENYON Copyright 1915 1916 by bO the McClure Newspaper Syndicate I dont don't se see Morton Bro Brown around here any more mare Emi Emily Did you OU have havethe havethe havethe the bad judgment to turn him hin 1 down 2 John Forster looked very straight at athis athis athis his daughter as he p put t this q question e Uon Well WeH daddy I 1 turn turned d' d him down Iown own only because I couldn't w car caro tore for him himas as aa he wanted mo me o to to and nd sur surely ur you dont don't think thin it would havo hMO be been ri good jUdgment to marry som somebody b d l' l did care for forT Emily mH sat with her el elbows elbows elbows el- el bows resting on th the library table and her chin resting on her hands hand I dont don't know kno noa what girls want nowadays but It seems seem to me Morton ought to lo pretty nearly bearlY nil fill tho the bill for any girl and Emily I know ho hohas hohas hohas has been hoping C for or you for or a long lone time Well h ho oughtn't t to have bave been ban too sure of me B But hell he'll get over 11 it fur dr love ove is Just a form of Intoxication A As Au Emil Emily spoke she nhe settled h herself comfortably I in a largo armchair Intoxication Is It Well see here daughter dont don't you ty to start a a prohibition mo eme movement against it If It you think Its It's only Intoxication th then n what do you you think of or your our mothers mother's and mine lasting all these years yeara ar aske l 1 John Forster with Ith a eo queer smile His daughter daught r had l lately tely be become become become be- be come a puzzle to him Oh well temperance In ln all things works well wen you know and while Ive I've no idea of or starting a prohibition campaign against love lovo for those who are seeking It or giving It It I prefer to be strictly temperate myself Emily's father did not reply at onoe once but ho he sat with twinkling eyes regarding re re garding carding her Never eyer forget this daughter that man and woman were made for lor each cacti L other othe and that either cither alono IB is spoor a s poor half halt of what the they could be to to- to gether Im I'm going upstairs to see what's keeping your our said Emily sat Mt looking Into the Uie fire She was waa thinking of or th the pale pate pained d' d face tace of ot Morton Brown when she had told him she was quite convinced that she sho would never marry She also thought of or the angry fi flash sh that camo caine into his brown e eyes es when she ahe told him of ot her intention to begin active service on the board of ot managers of ot an institution institution tion for work Obsessed with the Ithe uplift id idea like a lot of other thOl people who fall tail to see lice the tho opportunity right at hand for tor a complete completo life and a Do normal one Had Morton refrained retrained from that remark romark the parting would h have vc been different And you seem obsessed with the idea that you can win mo me according to the same formula you use in writIng writing writ writ- ing your advertisements Emily darted In reply Do you OU remember telling me mo the steps taken in writing an advertisement ad Yes said Mid Morton wondering why on earth she asked As I remember it it you said first firt to attract attention t mUon second cr create ate Interest third arouse desire and fourth make the sale You succeeded succeed Succeed- ed in tho the first two two but you fall failed d in inthe Ithe l I the last two simply Imply because you OU neglected neg neg- l to take into consideration that you were riot not appealing to a n. prospect prospect pros peel who needed or wanted tho the particular par par- r articles of at which you 1 0 wanted t to dispose and arid I remember you told me mc that it It If was a n. vital point never tobe to tc I Ibe be lost sight of Morton vaguely vaguel remembered ber d having hay hav lug ing talked this sort pt pf shop talk to tc Emily sometimes because she seemed L Interested b but t that sho she had remembered remembered it and ond flung it back at him Inthis in ir inthis this way amazed him almost o. o as mud much muchas as it angered him A few Uw minutes after atter she sho had said laid ii Ithe it I he w wa was t on Oil his wa way to his apartments and sho ehe was sitting alone atone before the thu fireplace That wan wa two month i ago arid and since th tb that i Um they had mot mel only at two or three formal soda social L affairs affaire s 's or when motoring when only p a a. noc nod was wai their gr greeting Dm During Ing those months months' Emily had worked hard bard hardon bardon banon on her social service committees ant and had been less lees than usual in formal form I She heard hear that Morton had bat I aI almost deserted his ls club b and was dc de- de VUU VL v. v U advertisers In the country countr All her hor associations with him hims s seemed emed very far away ay in the pa past l and she felt that there thero was little e ab about ut her that was vital and worth worthwhile wIllie while in spite of all th the enthusiasm with which she had beg begun n her settlement settle ment work vork Even her mother an and d father were beginning to leave her t to o herself She Sho did not suspect that tha t crafty John Forster was was detaining his wife upstairs for the tho specific purpose pur put p pose sc of allowing Emily's mind an op opportunity op- op tp t run run in the direction he h o had pointed as he left the room The next morning Emily wen went went t down to a n. late lato breakfast and found that her mother had b breakfasted with her father and accompanied him downtown She ate her grapefruit t without apparent relish and told th the e maid to bring her nothing but black coffee and toast Then Thea she sho picked up the morning paper and glanc glanced d over ove r the he headlines and was about to la lathe lay laythe laythe y the paper down when she saw th the e name o of Morton Brown under an ar at article article ar- ar tide headed beaded Employer Risks Life Lite t to toSa o Sa Save ve Employees There followed an account of ot a fIr fire e the evening before in the building o of f which Mortons Morton's advertising agency y occupied the top floor It told how Morton refused to leave the floor until until un un- til h ho knew that every employee had been taken down the tire fire escape an and d of ot his being carried out later by th the e firemen who found him overcome o b by bythe bythe y the smoke and the Intense heat Th Thed The Tho e d details t failed to attach themselves t to o Emily's mind All An she remembered d was that Morton was now in a hospital hospital hos boa pital and perhaps suffering terribly She hurried Into inlo str t an and d started for tor t the tho hospital to which th the tho e paper stated stiLted ho had been taken When sh she arrived she sho was as told that tha t visitors were vere not nol admitted at that tha t hour hour and she walked directly pas past t the attendant Into the superintendents superintendent's superintend ent's office onlee and demanded to see him immediately The superintendent being a n man who had a a. wife an and d d daughters and who remembered hi his s youth very er cr well eU put two and tw two to together to- to gether gother In his mind and directed a a. nurse to conduct Miss Forster to Mr Browns Brown's room room Dearest she wh whispered as sh she e knelt by his bedside Ive Ivo learned learne d why wy people call can love the most precious precious pre pt cious thing in the world worM Why Is iB It it dear Because theres there's so much of It hidden hidden hidden hid hid- den away In hearts and so 80 little of i itji It t l i circulation But Ive I've found what wha t as was In my m- heart and Ive I've brought i ito it t to you Will Vm you take It 7 I Yes and add to it an equa equal l amount With that combination th the e world will bo be ours whether wo we advertise ad ad- 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