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Show 'I) IkJ to TVRTnrR BENTON had been born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. Ever since he could remember he had never felt the need of a single thing that money could buy there was scarcely a wish of his that had ever been left ungrati-fled. ungrati-fled. His father had left him a large fortune before he was twenty-one and things had always been very easy for him. His father, shrewd business man that lis was, had left the money so that there would be no chance of Arthur's Ar-thur's running through it in a hurry, were he so inclined. But he need not have worried on that score, for so far it seemed as if Arthur was truly following fol-lowing in his father's footsteps his one desire seemed to be to add to the pile. He did not even spend one-fourth one-fourth of tlie lavish allowance he had been left which would come to him on,.h vpnr until he was twenty-eight. He was no w twenty-five a n d there seemed great danger of his developing into in-to a money-making type. Not that he denied himself a single thing that he cared for, but like many others who have h a d everything every-thing all their lives, Arthur never stopped to Ihink that there were many whom he could help to happiness by a little of what was his. Thf'e days before Christmas he stood at the roiinler of one of the largest sloi-cs In town. It was 'during the rush hours of the day t'.nd Hie clerks were -iP busy. ,iihu chafed at the J, I...V. :!.:!,;.' it all,' ' - ' to himself, "why won't they wait on somebody. I'll go somewhere else and get service." Leaving the store hurriedly he started impatiently across the street, forgetting to look for passing cars. He never could tell afterwards how it happened there was the feeling of some huge bulk bearing down upon him and he knew no more. When he awoke he was lying in a cool, white bed In a very bare and spotlessly clean room. Beside his bed sat a widte-robed figure, a trained nurse, he saw at a glance. He was In a hospital ! Yes, lie remembered all now ! He tried to ask the nurse how long he had been there, but his strength was scarcely enough for even that. She told him very quietly that he had been there a little over a week that he had been badly injured, but was well on the way to recovery now, and that the doctor had said he would be as well as ever very soon If he would do just as he was told, lie looked more closely into the nurse's face as she spoke -yes, this was the girl that had been in his dreams so much the dreams must have been really true. In the days that followed, Arthur I'.enlc.ii bog-an to he more and more interested in (lie sweet-faced young nurse. She was so very good to him, so gentle and so kind; no one had ever been that good to him before, lie realized now that with all his wealth he had missed something in life something that money could not buy. She read to him a great deal, too, and he enjoyed listening as her soft, melodious voice rang out In Iho still room. But often he would find himself losing the thread of the story or poem in watching the play of her delicate features or the glint in her shining hair. But he liked best of all when she sat and talked to him and told him of herself and her ambitions. She and her. father were very much interested in little crippled children and they were planning to build a home where they could be cared for. Her father was a doctor and the most wonderful man in the whole world. He had done so much for the poor of the city, but she rather feared that this time he was trying to do more than was possible he was finding the financial aid for the home a great problem. As she spoke he could almost al-most visualize the multitude of little ones that would come to the home through the years and pass out of Its doors again into the. world strong in body again. What a wonderful work 81 It would be how great a privilege to have even a part in Its making! mak-ing! Finally there came a day when (here seemed no further need of Arthur Benton staying at the hospital. The doctor had pronounced pro-nounced hlra as fit as a man could be and he, himself, him-self, felt that It was true, yes, even more than true. For in addition ad-dition to regaining regain-ing the health and strength that had been his before, something new and wonderful had come into his life something that made 1dm feel better and happier than he had eer felt before. For he had won the hive of a girl so wonderful that he marveled each time he thought about it. Helen Goodman was different differ-ent from all the girls he had ever known there was no question about it In Arthur's mind. He had also learned the many wonderful things that he could do with his wealth how much happiness he could bring to humanity by using part of It to do the things for which there was such a crying need--and how much happiness happi-ness he cotnd also bring to himself In doing all of this. A few weeks later there was a wedding wed-ding and the two who had been brought together during tin: Christinas time started out as one, on a road that was siralglit and shining the road to happiness. l'J2C. WoMtorn NewHimuer Union.) |