| Show Daily Short Fiction Story RUSHING MATTERS By LOUISE OLIVER OLIVEE Copyright 1914 1014 h hy by the McClure Newspaper Newspaper News News- Newspaper paper H Syndicate Hello Ii Is that you Dickie Yes Ye Yen How are arc you ou toda today May Ia d dearest dearst dear dear- est cst e st 7 Fine Pay Gay Dick 1 dear do something for or m me will you 7 The very cry Idea of or 1 asking ln I me mt that Any Anything thin Ive I've gots got's yours My h life An Anold Any y old thin h ng Well Vell I dont don't want your our life life or lt or r-or r or oram r am am- amold a ny old thing You must not take yourself your your- s self elf so fO lightly But to be serious 1 Id I'd c 1 like to borrow a little of ot the tho muscle yo you u annexed on the football fie field I want wan ut t you to help me with with something Ill III move tho the Washington at monument for or you Rill Silly T I only want scant you OU to carT carry a n traveling bagA bag bap A A traveling tnt ba bu bag Ar Arp you oU s going r i sot Not very ery far tor Only over o to tho the Sot Set House on the south side Im I'm 1 taking over er some childrens children's books Ive I've du dup dug up in the tho attic an and the they arc aro as heavy as aM lead All right honey Ill I'll bo be out right a away a 0 Oh no nol In alarm Father will be he sure suro to find out If Ir you come ome to the house lIlI T I ju just t cant can't face another storm Well II Nora Jom Js JI ns fiR strong stron as a 1 ho horse e Sho Sun can carry It to tho the C car r for tor mo me Then If you meet me n at 1 Fremont street and help mo me the square to the Hampton street streetcar streetcar car I will ho he hee e very much obliged I 1 sot got cl oft off rl right ht In front of the thc Settlement House and the rest Is easy Of or course I could get gel a messenger r but but But ButI nut But I haven't ha for tor almo almost seen sen you ou t a week You darling At S. S then At 3 sharp Goodbye Goodbye loveliest girl irl In tho the world At 6 8 o 0 o'clock clock clork Mrs Mr Ill Wilton lIton sn sat t down to dinner Mays May's place across the table was empt where Hiss Lucy Kuoy Is tIny May I 1 dont don't know Imo Mr Mllton Ill I'll ask Nora orn In a minute Luc Lucy returned Xora Nora tia says says 8 she also went out at al 30 Toll Tell Nora to come como here Nora II appeared In the doorway Where did Miss IUs Mav In go I f dont don't know Mr Ir Milton She went out at with a n. traveling bag baS I T helped her to carry It to tn the street car Thun Didn't she sa say where she was as going No Xo ff I Mr wont went to the telephone and called culled up his sister Bister Mrs Morrow Mono Kate Kate- do you know anything about May ta he hc went somo place with a 1 tray trav- choir bag hag and left mo me no word Now No dont don't hi Wow blow ow UD liD brother John Johns Yes Yc r I do O know something g and was Just jUit won wondering erin about it It Jimmy was coming from school at al 3 l o'clock when he hr saw 53 May Ia and Dick pet get Into a taxicab taxicab taxicab taxi- taxi cab at the corner comer of ot Fremont street t an anthe and the I square Tho They ha had a Ii traveling bag bait D D T Why 11 couldn't you ou tell me Its It's too loo late now Wh Why brother John Johnl t Do you OU suppose IUppO C that presumptuous over overgrown rown pup ha has run off oft with whit rn my daughter Ill I'll break hl his neck I dont don't suppose anything at nt all I Inow something tho 1 though h That If Ir they the haven't nt run off oft I T wish th they had It would serve you ou rf right ht for talking that thal R way to your our sister BleUr Besides I T like DickI Dick I dont don't and Ill I'll shot how him Ill I'll show pho everybody c The gall III Tho The The-the thc Tho-thc- the Mr Milton was as beyond further speech p The receiver dropped from his hlA hand He TIc paced raced up anI and down Iown the tho hall like c a caved lion May Ia run on orr w with Ith 1 thoro May married to Dick Dirk With With- tow row TT n. n hated haled the whole holo family On Ono On time Simi father hind bud chea cheated him What hat I he meant leant its v i that one tithe tin the elder cider ha had frustrated an am al- al tempt on his liis own part to do O somo some mono money juggling lIe He ate ato no dinner lie IIo sat fat In tho the darkening darkening darkening dark dark- ening II library bra I watching the thc clock Seven struck and no daughter appeared The house was d deathly quiet It H seemed an as If Ie some somo ono one were dead lead May lay his little 1 May was gone cone He Ile was a n lonely childless old man She w would ul never nc come back Sho She knew he would never hover forgive I e her When Mr tic h Milton dropped the receiver Mrs Irs Morrow lorrow hung up lien her own awn Sho Sno walked thou thoughtfully Into the dining room and sat at at down to her unfinished meal Well 1 asked her husband ha tt tho the row I 1 was Just t thinking I T believe e Ill I'll call callup callup callup up Dick WItherow and tell him that f If It he ho hasn't hant already married May Milton homay ho be may Inay as well do It Il rl right ht away wa lies Hes got ot the tho credit for tor It U an anyway and brother John will ho bo cooled cook off b by the time they get home I know kuo brother John Hell He'll como conic around all oil right So Dick his row his face race half hair lathered lath lath- credo ered halt half shaved answered the phone In In his bedroom and urd heard Mrs Irs Morrows Morrow's astounding proposition And In two minutes minutes minutes min min- utes ho he had communicated tho the Idea to May Ia who was at the tho Hou House o detained l by a u wrangle of ot the tho house committee com cona- At 7 o'clock while Mr r Milton watched 1 the clock tho thin of St. St Stephens Stephen's was t tying Ing the nuptial knot anI and Dick an and May Maw la Milton were pronounced pronounced pro pro- man mun and wife At 8 S o'clock Mr Ill Milton tottered to hl ills his room He had not Leon been so o desolate for years yeara How could he ho ever eVel mana manage e to live without bright happy happ little May Suddenly a thou thought hl came to him Ho lie need not live without her herhal What hal had ever pr put such a thou thought ht Into his Isis head headlie He lie would tell toll her tell her them them to to come home After ter all a n son law wouldn't make much difference Now Xo th that l It was teas as over he rather rothel admired the young mans man's nerve He ha had ne never r given cn him credit for much Initiative 1 Just then the door bell mn rang and amid he ho heard heardIa May Hays Ia happy haIp laugh lauCh In the hall then theu Dicks Dick's deeper ton tones s A glow passed through h him like wine They had not forsaken him The They had come home to him Instead of or taking a trip Then he lie went downstairs It w was Mrs Ir Morrow lorrow who called up a n caterer and some orne of or the tho brides bride's friends to share sharo the tho feast feast- But Dut It was Mr Milton who laid a generous gen sen orous erous check on top of or tho the wedding cake und and gave tho the happy young couple coupe Isis his blessing |
