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Show f i I DORIS RESOLVES j ' I" ANNA L, NEWSOM ? i IS nW.V.WW.V.VW.V.V.'.V pgnS UMBER THREE whistled -jSP at the crossing, slowed t- jvSfc down, and came to a stop r. with a grind of brakes. ifetygJI Doris and Madge hurried up the steps to the platform They said "good-by," and waited for the passengers to alight the man whose trousers showed beneath his blue overalls, who held in each band the hand of a sleek-faced youngster the fat woman with a heavy coat ip this stifling weather and three bun dies, the stout old traveling man, the chic flapper, and the tall, dark-eyed man with two heavy grips. "Did you see that man," Doris asked, as Madge gave her bag. to -the. porter? . . "Yes, now don't yon go to smiling at him," admonished Madge. "Not I," laughed Doris as the train started. Doris went past her father's hard ware store on her way home, but she didn't see the dark-eyed man in the office. "And Is that your daughter?" asken Lewis Hollman when Doris had gone "Well she is the prettiest girl I have ever seen." " "Yes, and the dearest," ' said the father, "but as full of sentiment as can be. Believes all she reads in books about true love being synonymous with tempests." said the father. ' " Two hours later Charles Bowen brought home to supper Lewis Holt ' man, the son of an old college friend now : traveling for t a hardware house. : When Hollman left at a late hour Mr. . Brown said with a twinkle In his" eye : . . ... ' "Give your father my love and bring your wife on your next trip." Lewis grinned and was gone. After that visit, once each month Lewis Hollman had supper with the Bowens. Doris had never asked her father any questions about, him ; but when - Lewis happened in on New Year's eve three days before he was due and asked Doris to go with him to a show to watch the New. Year In. she asked her dad if he was married. "No, why," was his reply?- "He wants to take me to a show." "Then go; you couldn't go. with a finer chap." Doris went and afterward - Lewis said : "Doris, dear, I've loved you ever since 1 saw " you at the ' train ray first trip. Will you marry me?" "But you're married and my New Year's resolution Is not 'to marry a married man," she teased. "Surely, you knew that your dad " "Did it to make me love some one whom I couldn t have." "Doris V1.- "Lewis I" . 1928.. Western Newtpaper Union.) |