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Show His name was Soo Tokion' and he was the only Japanese student' at a I big university on a big lake. Her name was Helen Siurievant and "she -was an American student at the same big university. Soo was a little fellow fel-low like nearly all of his race. Helen was a great, splendid creature who towered more than a head above the little Jap. NOW Hfilpn Stlll-toior, .A j An instructor 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 was but a child.. It was Soo Tokion. He had been at work on a clay model when the students entered. He was j about to make his presence behind the screen known, when there came the words -whirjj. held him silent. Now I u.,ttUi uau ttLLiaCteU I Soo the moment his eastern, eyes beheld be-held her. It's curious, but it's as true as the synoptic gospel that little men, that 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. Every, woman likes devotion, even though it is shown by a little chap. ne stood tremb.ing, and -with something some-thing in the depths of his oriental I eye8 that was past sounding. "No such thing as sacrifice known to my people for those whom we love?" he murmured mur-mured to himself. "No regard for the rights of woman as a wife?" Then Soo Tokion murmured something in his native tongue that sounded like a prayer. The co-eds gossiped much, and at times rather noisily about the devotion devo-tion of Soo to Helen. She had so many beaux among the American students that it Is just barely possible some of the co-eds thought that she might let Soo attach himself to their trains, for Soo was reputed to be wealthy,' Helen Sturtevant was bent on following fol-lowing the career of an actress. She had natural gifts. Absolutely impartial-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 education edu-cation of his daughter and the helping help-ing toward the realization of her dramatic dra-matic dreams. ine next day, there came a blow to Helen Sturtevant. Her father had failed, failed utterly and miserably, j and she must give up her course. The' I lrl was crushed bodily and mentally. I The news flew through the university. Helen's father's business had gone to the wall and Helen was to leave. Soo Tokion heard. He sought the girl out. She was sitting alone . in a corner of a music-room. He went to her softly. He carried one rosebud spotlessly white, in his hands. The girl looked 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. One day a dozen of the co-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 there. The night before at a musical 1 nave heard,. and I am sorry, Miss Helen," said Soo. He put the 'white rose in her hand and then started to speak again, but his voice broke. He uttered the one word "Helen," and before be-fore the girl knew it he had seized her hand, kissed it and was gone. !t Was Nt Hard to Identify th n Two days after the body of a man, a little man, was recovered from the waters of the big lake. It was not hard to Identify the drowned. One week afterward Helen Sturtevant Sturte-vant was informed by a law firm that she was sole heiress to J25.000 the entire fortune of .Soo Tokion, university univer-sity student. With the announcement "was Inclosed In-closed this letter, addressed to Helen in a handwritine sho the attentions of Soo Tokion 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 midwinter, mid-winter, and American beauty roses were quoted at fabulous prices H.?,Ie? '" Said one of tne co-eds, you 11 bankrupt Soo, rich though T 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 thov o o ... .. You must keep on with your studies. I loved you. We of the East consider ,t a virtue to do things for those we love." There is a little chapel now being built near the Presbyterian mission in a village just outside Yokahama, It Thlv n Ca"ed the S Tokion apel. Skinn f7Ef tbe birtbPlace of Soo Tokion, student at an American university. uni-versity. The money was made over to the missionaries by some one h,TfD t0fem nly as a classmate" e "ted "t T m?.mrlal Was t0 b erected. The chapel's cost was 25,- M winthAriCaD ?Hy a regaI IoiBS girl with sad eyes is working her war ClarS tmatiC art-EdarY Clark, in ChaQ Record-Herald. ' v .11 i J o.uu eacn. ' von II do something worse than bankrupt poor Soo, Helen," said another an-other student; "you'll break his heart unless you keep it sound by marrying him. Frankly, dear child, everybody Is talking about this thing, even the professors. Why don't you marry torn? the girl questioned half mischievously. mis-chievously. Helen flushed. The idea of marrying Soo was preposterous. "Do you sup-pose sup-pose any American girl would marry an onental?" she said. "The far eastern east-ern peoples have no more conception of the rights of a woman as a wife than has the unspeakable Turk. Thev may think they love a woman, but not one of them would sacrifice his own T easure for her, let alone anything |