Show 9 11 fr his ills name ras a soo fokion and und he was the only japanese student at a big ng university on a big lake her lame name was helen sturtevant and she ras was an american student at the same big university soo was a little tel fel low like nearly all of his race helen was a great splendid creature who towered more than a head above the little jap the students said that fokion came very near being a greek word and they wondered bow how the name wandered to far off ff japan of course the boys called him susie and the jap never minded at all until he be found out that susie was a girls girl s name and that t was given to him in a sort ot of con tempt for his pigmy build the japs are noted wrestlers and one day susie astonished a big fellow who had applied the girl name to him by b Bt anding him on his head and near ly breaking the tormentor s neck in do ing it after that even the husky football players sunk the name susie and s apol pole e to the little jap cordially and called him by the name given him in the orient now helen sturtevant had attracted soo the moment his eastern eyes be held her its it s curious but its it s as true as the synoptic gospel that little men that I 1 is extremely little men generally manage to fall in love with big women helen sturtevant liked the devotion of the jap she treated him with an amused sort of toleration woman likes devotion even though it Is shown by a little clap the coeds co eds gossiped much and at times rather noisily about the devo tion of soo to helen she had so many beaux among the american students that it Is just barely possible some unless you keep it sound by marrying him frankly dear child everybody ig Is talking about this thing even the professors why do it 11 you marry hima the girl questioned half mis chleva helen flushed the idea of marrying soo wa preposterous do iou sup pose any american girl would marry an 9 she aid bald the far east ern peoples have no more conception of the rights of a woman as a wife than has the able turl they may think they love a woman roman but not one of them would sacrifice his own for her let alone an anything thing higher JP A tor came into the studio and called the students out behind a screen in the corner stood a man a man in truth though in stature he v as but a child it was soo tokalon he had been at work on a clay model when the students entered he ile was about to make his presence behind the screen known when there came the cords which held him silent now he stood trembling and with rith some thing in the depths of his oriental ea e es that was past sounding no such thing a aa sacrifice known to my people for those whom rhom we re loved he mur aured to himself no regard for the rights of woman as a wife then soo dohlon murmured something in his native tongue that sounded like a prayer the next day there came a blow to helen sturtevant her father had tailed failed failed utterly and miserably and she must give up her courso course the girl was crushed bodily and mentally the news flew through the university helen s father fathers s business had gone to the wall rall and helen was ras to leae leate A V 2 0 W 0 I 1 X tf RZ fb a it was not hard to identify the drowned of the coeds eds thought that she might let soo attach himself to their trains tor for soo was ras reputed to be wealthy and the big bunches of hothouse flow ers that went to helen in zero er when hothouse flowers cost a mint would have been very acceptable to any of the other fair rs of the uni hersity helen stu ad no very serious thoughts a jap sure ly the girl said to i e self he can t mean anything serious tor for he must know how utterly impossibly it would be for me to think of such a thing as loving him let a one many u nh him elen 1 sturtevant was bent on fol lowing the career of an actress she had natural gifts absolutely bial persons had told her that and the girl felt it herself her father was a man of some means and he grudged nothing that would go toward the edu cation of his big da ter and nd the help ing toward the realization of her dra matic dreams one day a dozen of the coeds eds were gathered in the university art studio they were waiting the arrival of an instructor and while waiting they sat and gossiped helen sturtevant was ras there the night before at a musical the attentions of soo fokion had been more marked than ever he had brought a great bunch of american beauty roses to be given to helen when she had triumphantly finished her part in the program it was mid winter and american beauty roses were quoted at fab ilous prices helen said one of the co eds you 11 bankrupt soo rich though I 1 understand he is charlie nelson sent me one rose last night and one of the girls told me she had asked the price of beauties and they were 3 50 each you 11 do something worse than bankrupt poor soo helen said an other student boull aull break his heart akal soo tokalon heard he ile sought the girl out she was sitting alone in a corner of a music musi room croom he ile went to her softly he carried one roset rosel iud Jud spotlessly white in his hands the girl ool ed up as he came she saw him and above her own misery came the thought of what she had said the day before and her heart smote her I 1 have heard and I 1 am sorry miss helen said soo he ile put the white rose in her hand and then started to speak again but his voice broke he uttered the one word helen and be fore the girl knew tt it he bad had seized her hand kissed it and vas ras gone two days after the body of a man a little man was recovered from tha the waters of the big lake it was not hard to identify the drowned one week afterward helen vant was informed by a law firm that she was sole heiress to 95 5 the entire fortune of soo fonoti sity with the announcement was in closed this letter addressed to helen in a handwriting she knew well you must I 1 beep on with your studies I 1 loved you we of the fast consider it a virtue to do aings tor for those we me love there is a little chapel now being built near the presbyterian mission in a village just outside yol ahama it is to be called the soo fokion chapel the village was the birthplace of soo tokalon student at an american uni hersity the money was made over to the missionaries by some one known to them only as a classmate of him for whom the memorial was to be erected the chapel chapels s cost was 25 in an american city a regal looking girl with sad eyes is working her way slowly but steadily upward in the pro of dramatic art edward B clark in chicago herald |