Show te HAPPY and prosperous new aa yearl year I 1 all day the words had been flung at cob bob cameron every everywhere iNhere he be went they echoed in his ears ne he wanted to shut them out to forget that a new year tear NN was as beginning last night in summing up the old year he had come to the conclusion that he was waa an utter failure that he might as well discard the idea of becoming a writer every story that he had sent out had come back bacil it was wag true that a few editors editor q ba had d encouraged him one of the best known I 1 in n the country had told him to keep on that he be had bad a fine literary style but none of them had kept his offerings bob felt that the wisest thing he could do was to chuck the whole thing nt at the beginning of the new kew year yet down la in his heart ho he knew that writing was a part of him that it would be an almost impossible task to keep away from the untidy desk back in his den but he would have to do it a a man hold a girl to a promise with nothing to offer her but failure bob knew that dorothy trent was back of his resolution to quit the writing game ile he loved dorothy and she loved him they had been maag engaged since their senior year at northwestern it was time that he should say something about marriage it was wag not fair to hold her as ho he was doing ile he would have to get a position that would enable him to keep a girl like ti X it will be glorious to help you work out your career dorothy he ask her to exist on the meager pittance he was getting from the pryor company he had taken the lob job simply because it gave him so much time tor for writing caring nothing at the time tor for the small salary and the lack of opportunity that it held the unhappiness brought by his resolve showed plainly in the weary droop of bobs shoulders and the tired lines on his boyish face he found it hard to join in the small talk and tun fun of the new years party that was going on it if dorothy been so insistent upon his coming he would have remained away tor for he was in no mood for frivolity and now an even deeper bitterness had crept into his heart as he watched the crowd pay tribute to everett elstun the literary lion of raymondville ile he wondered how dorothy ha had got elstun to her party he be was a bit of a recluse and seldom mingled with tho the crowd ile he was surprised as he saw him walking across the room with an eager look upon his face how are you coming with your writing he isad is cd bob ga e a mirthless laugh Iv ive ejust just decided that as a writer im a pretty good hod carrier the tact fact of the matter is mr elstun ive made a new years resolution to quit givone givina up in a huty hurry elstun said a trifle sharply ive itte been trying for almost two years bob answered and you think a few hours every now and then tor for two years should tare have brought you success listen boy I 1 was writing full time tor for more than three years before I 1 got a hint that I 1 wasting ink in a moment bob yes was confessing his real reason for quitting elstun listened quietly then he spoke 1 I too had bad that problem he said there was a girl I 1 felt sure she be satisfied with what I 1 had bad to offer fortunately tuna tely I 1 found out in time she wanted to share my struggles maybe the girl you love feels the same way bob found that elstun was right dorothy was aghast at the thought of 0 his giving up the work he loved or doubting that she would want to share his poverty it will be glorious to help you work out your career she assured him so a new resolution was made that called for or success instead of failure allure the new year nas as going to bring be bob b the acceptances that he craved 0 western newspaper union pretty good world scientists studying evolution predict that mankind will become perfectly adapted to its environment in about years it if it Is going to take as long at that we can afford to yield briefly to the holiday spirit and say blithely that this Is a pretty good world that for one so young it has done a good deal and has never behaved itself better than right now womans comans home companion |