| Show EVENING TELEGRAMS TELEGRAM'S DAILY SHORT STORY DICKS DICK'S MEMORIAL DAY By LOURENE OTIS Copyright lf 1914 1114 14 by the Newspaper News Newe- paper Sl Syndicate I hate Foody soo Roody coody-Roody people 1 Lucille turned up her pretty prell nose to emphasize emphasise her remark and succeeded In tn making Dick Verne feel el about as insignificant as ts a ahoe sl shoe hoe oe Dutton button But nut I 1 think there's theres a be between be- be tween goody as you call It and com common man Its It's Ju just t a case rase Cd e of ot not got t wanting to disappoint dad dads But you youre you're re disappointing me ute Dont Bay say that Lucille he ho pleaded miserably You Tau know Ill Id do an thing thing In the tho world for or 1 jou OU Dont Don't be unreasonable dear Its It's Just this n way war ay You Yau know knott what dad thinks of the Grand Army Arroy Its It's his religion lon almost You Tau see IlI ho's hos 4 setting getling yeti very vcr old and old people Jet get it u great deal of iuro le le suro In thinking over o Iho past ut Ho He 1 lives yes o over o er the entire cull war ar over every da day Ho talks tacks of little silo and Memorial day lay Is to him the most sacred time of or the year car I know tt what hat ho he will do that t du day And It will be he plenty lie Jie wont won't t ml miss g an address and I believe hell he'll t try tn to moire make e one himself hell holl bo e In the first t rank of or the parade IntI Insists on be De being be ing on tho rho flower lawer committee at tho rho terns I tery and wants S to do v In t the ri I world r nB that the doctor has l forbidden I on l account of his Ills heart Vo 0 cannot cannat let him do these things alone Someone has tobe to tobe tobe be with him constantly at home wen even And Arni who else Is fa there hut mo to look after him tomorrow v I 1 am his only son aon You 1 ou could get et Sam Brody Sam dam wont won't be sober ober on aD a holiday No I I cant can't trust him with an am ono else Beside Be Fie sides side If f dad thought I would go 10 to a pic plc- picnic nic on Memorial day I T don dont don't t leno know what I hed he'd do I Just can cant can't t hurt him that way Lucille I Very er troll w 11 Im I'm not going oln to tell th the others that my refused to take me meto meto to tho rho picnic l cau o ho hr h hail had to tu ph play nurse This Is 15 what I 1 s shall li hl ll II tell thorn them and nd i It will bo be true You fire ere not go JollI with I mo me because I r ha hate to t you ou ou and nd hay hav broken r I to jn fur MIO dreher drew our cn a in her un t off her ring and nun flue It to the tho Braun ground l at tit his feet teet Then rhen skits she turned and t walked a. a afro Va 1 stood Mood looking after her hI miserable bh All along he ho ha had hafl l b been en afraid of lomo- lomo thing like Ilke tIll this Beautiful wan ryas proud spoiled and hl high h spirited IIo III hid never aster leally understood ho how a u P plain I erda da and Ind matt matter of fact of-fact fellow like himself elf had peen been able to win will her Ho Ifs started ho home f forgetting ge 1 to P Pup pick pickup felt up the ring on Iho tha pa pavement pa 11 ler lie he thought of or It tt and H went enl back bacI 1 hut but ut It torts wriN TO CO gone Lucille went to the picnic tt with Ith Wendell Wen dell Stuart The crowd a was as 38 to meet 1 at t the courthouse court court- near house houI wh where re the they to ge got Iet the car r for tor Greenwater Park Lucille e and Wendell Wen endell en- en dell were frets the the last to o arrive and the Past ti oat at curbstone oth others r were d up n nn a at t the curbstone n th the Procession precision pa pas ass bv by b Fe Few c cof of the rho old soldiers were Herr r step stepto to the fife ind Inri drum j a t great many le leaned n d don on cones canes and iconic omo who oho refused r to tv ride trod hod hI 1 eSlI Through the thc T t IJ caught a of or old oM Mr Y Vern r In ht the front rank as IU Dick had pr predicted nd Dick lc was tear If beside him his hl had up p looking ne neither r to the right or ot loft left his his fathers father's fathers father's hand on his hiI 0 arm rm rrt The crowd d began to cheer and Lucille felt a t queer nu per er little catch In her hr throat thorn Above the tho tumult tu tumult tumult tu- tu Wendell en was nas talking of the thc cro crowd and rho th the g of or orthe the fUrs Afro aha ph caught Forte pome of ot the word not all nil nut lint It t as about p people showing off trod off bad cn enough u h for fOI the theold old duffers hut but the limit when It cameto came rome cameto rometo to flu belle nn's ones him Ills Isla words seemed to sicken her har and ens cha hA hut shut her N ec for aa an u I old men marching out so o under the Hag flag they had saved She re remembered remembered re re- tho rho words wards of or a IL veteran she sho had hud heard orco In school Children h hI he had said rold you mustn't think of or soldiers sol Biers diers Il as old men Old men dont don't go 0 to ta war trot c went to to war tear bo boys bogs f IB ls fi 18 IS 20 YO years cars old I It wasn't men that got bot shot shat to pieces children It Ic was teas boys bos And nd when you ou think of or Memorial day children dont don't think of or us ua old men We Ve dont don't want you ou to Just honor the rho memon memory mem moro ory on of or those other young aunt fellows tl that at died Bled fighting Sho realized now not who would mako malco o the bravest st of bravo brave soldiers should there be 00 bea a war tear sari and which one would bo be the cow con ard Without a n word ard she turned and left lefther her campa companion na nor did dill she onto once look back until sho reached her homo home An hour later Inter old lId SIr Mr lr Knox returning return return- returning ing stopper stopped at the gate gute Seeing Lucille on an the ills porch parch he n went ent In Samuel Verner erneI ha hail had one of ot his bad spells this morning at the cemetery MI Silos Miss s Lucille I thau thought ht you 30 mightn't t know Imo about It and would natura naturally 11 bo Inter Inter- ester ested Its It's a It mighty might good thing DIkI Dick DIk was alone aIom I 1 tell you ou or tho rho poor old boy I would SUI sine e be DC gone now no You Tau see Dick DickI I kno knows Jus just t tt wl what liat al to do has do-has has a hypodermic or 01 something always s rc ready d He certainly Is a no lint line lad Miss ills a fine One lad lit You Ton ought to be Dc mighty proud prowl of hi him Ye Yes ho he's hes s all right now naw I guess f They've got ot pica him home Pine Fine ria day Isn't It No thanks thank Ill I'll jUl just t move aloe along Its Ifs near dinner time Good rooming Without an Instants Instant's hesitation Lucille put pui don down it her book There was ryas ani only one thing In tho rho world orld tor for her to do da now Wort and anti she he didn't n even en wait mil to get gel ct her hT hat It IC was wan only four squares to the Vcr Vcr- ners ner's but Dul It lIke liko BO so many miles vs Most of or the tho wa way tray oho ran She Sho nary flew up UI the tho front steps and found h het l In the rho thed d donly nh h her r heart went w Wf III out nett to the grand wide cool coal hall hUn hung with Suns guns and sabers and other relics of the war q A door opened and Dick came out Ho HB faced her with amazement at al hr r breathlessness and wind blown blawn hair Lucille what's wron wrong What hat has happened hap Ten Tell me mo quickly quickly Why area arent aren't t you yeti OU at al tho rho picnic a J She smiled Dic Dick I Ive I've e lust Justl b been en running rennin J I came to tell toll you ou that that that-a that Im I'm sorry arty Can Con you far forgive he me meT I II t I dont don't deserve It lt for tor I havo have treated i you ou disgracefully j 4 Ho Ito took her lice in fit his arms and kissed kled herd her for far answer You Tau darling little girl was ryas j jall all ho Ito Eald fa Id And Ind then he ha remembered J tho Uio tine ring i Lucille followed his glance to her hand band handi Oh Olt It will be he here hers tt when hen the postman comet comes she sho cried I Z thought you forget It It co so o I 1 wont went back and picked It t tup up tip and mailed It to you ou Hera's Heras IIer s 's tho the let Jet el to man now naw J Dicks Dick's hand shook hook as ao ho lipped flipped the ring on her finger er Its uIt's certainly 3 a I Memorial day dRY for m me mc dear tor for somehow I J net never ne er felt until toda today that I had really won you |
