Show gin IN desperation 1 eg fa 0 by C 13 LEWIS i phineas talbot was bashful ua as a j baby if any neighboring woman cante camp I 1 in and lifted him up lie cried becaas because fief lie could not lilda aldo ills hla face lie he was waa bashful its as it a boy when III he at attended school nothing so gave him the fidgets ats as to have ills teacher call illin him or a pretty girl smile at ilin him As a youth lie he was gilli more basli ful ills mother lind had to coax and bribe I 1 him tin to boget aget him to go on an errend to the store it a girl came to the talbot house uway away went phyneas on the run grew to a bashful manhood rie ile learned piano making and lit in alm ti 11 IV lie he opened a little agency it was almost torture to have two or three young ladles indies enter ills place and begin to talk music to him bashfulness hurt huit ills his business and men often talked to him about it but lie he was casborn born to blush and stammer stai timer lie ile might kick hick dozen times a day but it would do no good there was something in store for phyneas and the perspiration stood on ills brow at the mere inere thought thou glit of it ho he lived with lils his mother and lived very contentedly but 61 site she was old old and growing older and tile the day would como come when lie he would have to fo lecup set up 1141 a homo olite for himself A bangle man bashful or I 1 not lot cannot make a home hoine for himself ile he has got to have a wife todo to do it great heavens 1 PI phyneas had got to ask some woman to be ills his wife and liow how was lie ever to get gei through wt with tl I 1 it without being made a cripple for life I 1 R every epry morning aheu he went to hla place of business lie he passed a house where there was it a good looking girl sometimes she sat in the window viewing the street and sometimes she was working i among alo flowers in tho the front froni yard of course alto never smiled at him and of courie corn tie lie took one look and then looked away on a certain summer morning the unknown maiden ran across the street bareheaded to speak to a young lady of her acquaintance just then phyneas talbot came along just then as well a man carne came along leading a cow every sight was a new sight with her she missed the blackberry bushes and growing in the pasture she was her nervous she was perturbed presently she grow grew excited excite dand and afraid all at once that cow cov concluded that she would return home before something awful happened she started on her return down the street just as the good looking girl started across the street for her home slie she made forthe tor tha girl with a bellow and her head held low jow down there was a scream of terror other screams from pedestrians and Plit phyneas talbot had jumped two feet high ile he saw and realized everything in a moment it was ills his duty to go to that girls rescue bashfulness Bashful nesa chained his feet for halt half a minute then a sort of crisis seemed to come ile he roust must do it or die ile he rushed out into the street und and grabbed that cow by the horns and prevented a tragedy the cow tossed her head and lifted phyneas clear off the ground she swung her head to and fro and swung him with it and in one of lier her swings intended to landheim land him on the roof of a house she fell down and her owner came up and recovered his rope phineas much the worse for ids his hero work ile he was gone almost before the good looking girl had realized her danger and recovered from her fright A small crowd gathered and she was conducted across the street und and every one had a word of praise for the daring young man who had seized the opportunity as well as tile the cow phyneas Plit hurried down to his eliop and he sat down to commune with ath himself and lie he soon saw another ghost rise up before him although lie been in society much he hilea the rules of good breeding he had bad saved that girls life and lie he must call upon her to talk the matter over N J jf jr he ne call she must think him a ioor boor it haunted him all lay day and when he be went it home ne at night he went by a light ed cd street he told ills mother as soon as is he got in the house that lie he had bien feeling strange ill all day and thought he would go to a doctor the old lady was looking for something like this and slie she told him straight out ont that lie he roust must mali make e that call phyneas could not get out of it lie ile delayed lind delayed d and dewent he went over to the girls house like a murderer walking to the electric chair lie ile made ell all ready to run and then rang the doorbell in halt half a minute the door was wai opened and there stood the girl herself a smile on her face and slie she ren reached clied out a well ell shaped arm arin tind and a soft hand and hade hlin him enter she did all the talking for the first five minutes g she thanked lafin ailin again and and his fits courage ant and strength nud before he knew what he was doing the bashful man was waa talking he went over there to make a call and lie ended it dy by making a visit and going home very jubilant to say to his mother why I 1 was there a full hour mother aind I 1 never fainted away oncel I 1 V almost hope hop I 1 shall see her every morning its as I 1 pass along 0 did see her hera a good many mornings it took him about eight mouths moll fits to pe eloff his bashfulness ond and the mother lived to see her it r son secure what makes a home and ana happi happiness copyright 1917 2917 by the tha mcclure newspaper syndicate |