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Show Ujela4 to BdebnaiOf iff TJ'RTIiril BENTON luid been born witli the proverbial silver spoon in bis mouth. Ever since he. could remember he had never felt the need of a single thing that money could buy there was scarcely a wish of his that had ever been left unfiruti-ned. unfiruti-ned. His father had left him a lare fortune before he was twenty-one and things had always been very easy for him. His father, shrewd business man that he was, had left the money so that there would be no chance of Arthur's Ar-thur's running through it in a hurry, were he so Inclined. But he need not have worried ou that score, for so far it seemed as if Arthur was truly following fol-lowing In his father's footsteps his one desire seemed to be to add to the pile. He did not even spend onc-lourth onc-lourth of the lavish allowance he had been left which would come to him each year until he was twenty-eight. lie was now twenty-live and there see m e d great danger of his developing in-1 to u money-making type. Not that he d e n i e d lumself a single thin g that lie cared for, hut like many others who have h a d everything every-thing all their lives, Arthur never stopped to 'think that there were many whom he could help to happiness by a little of what was his. Three days before Christmas he stood rl the counter of one of the largest stores in town. It was .during the rush hours of the day and the clerks were nil busy. Arthui chafed at the U.-'iiy. "Ilang !t all,' i tf.-v.-rb to himself, "why won't they vVait on somebody. I'll go somewhere else and get service." Leaving the store hurriedly he started Impatiently across the street, forgetting to look for -passing cars. He never could tell afterwards how . it happened there was the feeling of some huge bulk bearing down upon him and he knew no more. Whim he awoke he was lying in a cool, white bed in a very hare and spotlessly clean room. Beside his Ixwl sat a white-robed figure, a trained nurse, he saw at a glance. He was in a hospital! Yes, he remembered all now! He tried to ask the nurse how long he had beer, there, but his strengih was scarcely enough for even' that. She told him very quietly that , he hail. been there a little over a wee!; that lie had been badly injured, hut was well on the way to recovery now, and that the doctor had said he would be as well as ever very soon If he woul.l do jirst as ho w'as told. lie looked more closely iido the nurse's face as she spoke yes, this was the girl thai had been in his dreams so much the dreams must have been reaHy true. In the days that followed, Arthur Benton began to be more and more interested in the .sweet-faced young nurse. She was so very good to him, so gentle and so kind; no one had ever been that good to him before, lie rcaii.cd now that with all his wealth he had missed something in life something that money could not buy. She read to him a great deal, too, and he enjoyed listening as her soft, melodious voice rang out In the still room. But often he would lind |