Show LITTLE TRICK DEAS DEAR OLD TOMS TOMIS but H lae had fellow fell hard OU oa the other 8 to stand it im an old bachelor now have no relations that I 1 except those 6 so I 1 distant relations at all live resent their being I 1 I 1 comfort except find at a hotel and in the in toms family sr sars s a writer detroit free press lie he and I 1 grew up together roomed together in college and did business together for years we friendship come what swore eternal might and many were the pranks we played on each other going to a length friend will permit that none but a fast tom and I 1 were both athletes athlea es both given to society Oci ety and both in favor with the fair sex on a trip home bome for the christmas vacation we participated in a railroad wreck from a burning car I 1 had the good fortune to rescue a beautiful young lady who would have perished but for me she was cious I 1 was nearly so and in the fearful fu ex excitement c aftem wo were separated without either knowing who the other was but she was always with me in memory and by some strange trick of mysticism 1 I was hopelessly in love with her after months of detective work on rny my part I 1 found her and managed an acquaintance at every meeting I 1 wanted to tell teil her how nex next t to her the dearest thing in my life was the fact of having saved her life but it seemed so much like boasting and appealing to her gratitude that I 1 fore bore one evening when I 1 called she met me with both hands extended and a radiant look of happiness she wanted I 1 my congratulations on the fact that she was going to marry tom ever since my horrible experience in that wreck she said 1 I have loved the man who averted such an awful fate only the other day I 1 learned it was dear old tom and now we are to be married dear old tom be 11 I 1 began in my desperation but he was dear oll old tom with all his faults I 1 played him many a trick so I 1 took her hand and said the conventional words that made her eyes glow with pleasure then I 1 went away for weeks to wrestle with myself but I 1 was back to stand up at the wedding toms children will get all my money for their mother is the only woman I 1 ever eve loved and their father has always been my chum |