Show 11 4 4 az 4 4 a 2 crimson ramblers great love Y 1 by DOROTHY DOUGLAS tl f f y 0 t aa r f 4 4 f U copyright atlie begin to express alie havoc wrought in barbers big frame when they carried film off on the football field and swiftly to the nearest hospital after they had finished with him the nurses lind and surgeons burlier barber looked out from his multitudinous bandages with mournful eyes and sensed the truth no more football for me lie be ea essayed r a ted to smile youve been overgenerous aith with your bandages you lie he queried not more than you needed my lad ind sold said one kindly surgeon surge ou aside front from a seriously smashed knee you have a twisted wrist a dislocated collar ione bone and a slightly cracked nose bridge cut but from that im quite all right barbers twisted smile emile hurt the tender hearts of those nurses who mho had helped the surgeons patch up the battered player suppose ill have to take to addres addressing bing envelopes for a career or writing poetry suggest suggested edthe the surgeon its certain never play football again and the coun arys going to miss you my boy the nurses turned away barbers fine mouth despite the effort he m made ade was uns quivering A beloved idol lie was and now cow lie he lay physically shattered aud and rudely sundered from al all that made life interesting there was one ho however mever who looked upon barbers plight with eyes that had a glint of triumph in them she the girl whom barber wanted to marry had persistently refused to marry a professional football player Perli now that football ns as a profession had been snatched from him lie would listen to reason and take up lip some business which would mean a regular salary and some k kind I 1 nd of definite future assured marcella never quite knew whether it was vas a touch of snobbishness on her part or whether she dreaded being merely the wife of the famous Bart barber for at any rate she had often said to barber 1 I would much prefer to tc love a man who made his living by means of ills his brain power instead of hla his bodily accomplishments you dont love me marcella or 0 you mould nt mind my profession being what it Is it Is perfectly honorable so in the hospital barber lay there thinking over all that marcella had said and realized that she certainly had a right to tier her views certainty certainly athletes could not be called interesting in as a whole and as week meek upon week went by and barber still lay in the alie hosP hospital lIal the time mine began to hang heavily upon him bini tired of reading bored with crossword cross word puzzles quite fed up with his own onn inner resources barber fell a prey to depression it was his big little red haired nurse whom lie he nicknamed crimson rambler raws because of tier her hair bair and tier her natural tendency to ramble happily till all over the place in search of amusement for her patients who brought him some medell modeling Dg wax its what children love to play wath on a rainy day now you just start right in and try to model me or that bed post uble whichever heer interests you most barber laughed and pressed the soft clay with fingers now sen sensitive to it suffering and strangely unlike his own strong hands As a mutter matter of fica barber had always had a secret longing to model things but had bad crushed down the feeling lest lie he be considered a first fi rit class nut and so in another weeks time there was fl a most amusing array of tiny figures standing upright on his bedside stand nurses short and nurses tall nurses smiling and nurses glum and a generous sprinkling of white chite robed surgeons and a kiddie or two all ali joined in that curious group of stoll small images but above abone all barbers eyes hud had taken on a new interest lo in things about win him the depression was gradually giving way to something akin to hidden tires fires bursting outwardly into lame flame and that career of art started in so curious a way was to carry barber ber to the very heights for the little figures standing so bravely there in the hospital held that in their workmanship which only the maftei hind band can gle marcella felt fell tier lier heart libart bent beat trl for surely now she would mould say yes to the question which burber barber had so bo many times asked it ma was s through crimson rambler Ka that the drugging dragging forth of d a sculptor tobe to lo be took place for in tier her ramblings about she come came across one who mho was well in a position to express a verdict on those little nurses surgeons aud and when they were carried carefully away to thi the great ones studio for inspection ate a tear ar squeezed through the daik brown lashes of crimson rambler beiber saw it and his heart gave gae a great hound bound Dar darling lingl he cried swiftly and seized the white title hund hadd hanging limply beside his bed would you have loved me if I 1 lina still been a football pla placer er V 1 I would 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