Show QUEEN OF HEARTS HEA by THOMAS B ALDERSON copyright ull 1914 by W G chapman when once you had seen ethel 13 bindon tin don it was hard to forget her thinking it over you would connect her with pictures you had bad seen in olden books when rhen art was select in fit the portrayal her eyes would make you recall some brilliant spanish beauty iler her form her poise reminded of the queenly beauties of oc ancient france her eer face smile a lured lure d you with its fresh sweetness and your mind would receive memories of golden mornings when some one you loved stopped stepped into a dewy garden path among birds and flowers like some light fairy of the ten or twelve available swains of 0 Dee fully halt half of them were ready to die for her and the others in despair she was not only the belle of the district but the favorite of all the ahe girls she did not seek to reign as queen 0 of all hearts they made her and did her homage but could not spoil her ethel was all soul kindly genuine the friend of 0 everyone even of wheels poor wheels ile he had got his hie nickname and had met his fate at deep ford lie he was wise enough to realize it and placidly accepted the situation they called him wheels because he had them in his head at least they eaid cald so BO he had been always of an inquisitive turn of mind some one had told him he was a natural born inventor since then adrian russell V it was hard to forget her alias wheels had dabbled in all kinds of experiments adrian had a small estate left him ty by his mother ethel depended on hr aged and somewhat whimsical grandfather she was his favorite and the other heirs expectant hated her tor for it let em cm my dear old luke lyndon used to chuckle ive got all my fortune in cash and jewels I 1 intend to tell you where they are before I 1 die dont give those timeserving time ume serving cousins of yours a single cent time went pleasantly for ethel the home wae waa roomy and even elegant her grandfather liberal in allowing her spending money lie he did not object in the least to her having a jolly crowd ajoy enjoy the evenings on the spacious lawn or upon the wide vine ered porch ive got it announced wheels in an assured and excited tone one after noon joining the tennis party on the lyndon lawn what wheels interrogated a joker measles but adrian refused to be anything but serious no sir BT he said ive got a new invention mouse trap eh smirked a second smart aleck just here ethel dropped her racquet and came up to the spot there was something earnest in the clear bright face of adrian even it if he was a dreamer 1 I knew you were going to achieve something great some time mr BIT russell she said in her sweetest way what Is it you are going to honor us with this time adrian flushed like a pleased school boy he fumbled in his pocket and drew out a belt its a life saver it if you please he explained shall I 1 show you fire in a hotel well say man ilan hemmed in by the flames in the top story lie he puts on this belt observe now I 1 attach this iron box with the hook attached I 1 secure the hook to a door imoe or a bureau I 1 drop from the window the steel tape inside the box unwinds slow blow or fast as I 1 choose by operating this little catch I 1 sall sail to the ground saved tn tit a movies play you mean an unbeliever no sir in real life im going to BIOW you miss lyndon it you will alow low me to go up through the house to the root roof I 1 will attempt a graceful descent deacent but but might that not be dangerous ge rous questioned ethel a tri i tremulously not at all insisted adrian giving ft a grateful look to the speaker as he thrilled at the conjecture that she was really anxious tor for his bis welfare there was an old fashioned observatory on top of the building the crowd below curiously greeted the excitement and novelty of watching the venturesome tur esome adrian as he be climbed out ot of a window and appeared at tho the edge of the root roof he secured the hook of 0 hta his descending device to a chimney rod lot let himself over the edge of the tiles slid five feet and checked himself and waved his hand airily to the spectators it delighted and nerved him mightily to note that ethel was regarding him in a halt half piteous halt half distracted way it showed her interest in him sisterly or humanitarian perhaps but sufficient to make him quite happy then some cog in the fire escape apparatus slipped and down lie be went hes falling oh he will be killed but adrian was kas not harmed seriously the fall was trifling but his bis head struck a trellis and tor for tile the moment he was stunned ile he raised up to find ethel bending solicitously over him oh bring some water qu quick lick she ehe cried in ill frantic tones and then as adrian got up and insisted that ho he was not harmed in the least she blushed like a peony mr lyndon died suddenly the next week he had left all his estate to ethel but to the surprise of all this comprised only the residence there was no money in bank none of the rich jewels the old man bad prated of search was made but with no resul results is and ethel finding she could not maintain the establishment without an income decided to leave tile the place and mako make her home with a married cousin a mrs oakes who with her little child came to visit her it was disappointing to ethel but natural that many of her fair weather friends should desert her when they learned that she had not after all inherited lie a fortune adrian was fond and true he called at the home of mourning mo arning daily ile he paid a hundred hu adred little litile unobtrusive attentions to lonely deserted ethel he pretended to be perfecting his fire escape invention but out ia la truth was thinking of his lady love most ot of the time one afternoon just as he entered the garden a vivid scream caused him to hasten to join ethel and mrs oakes who N were ere rushing distractedly towards the loose board covering of an old well my aly child my child she went down there and the lady pointed to the yawning hole bole and fainted away in a lash flash adrian had affixed the hook of his device to the well curb and was over its edge ten feet down startled but not net even stunned he found the little child seated on a pile of straw that had been thrown into the well nell at some time or other adrian regained the girden garden level shouting out that the littler little one was safe he placed the child oil oa the tha grass pretty pretty she lisped in one chubby hand band holding several bright coins they revived mrs oakes then adrian wondering it they had not discovered mr lyndone Lyn dons missing wealth made another descent into the well and there the hidden hoard board ot of the old miser was found and then thee as 1 if this was a veritable wishing voll roll adrian told his love to ethel and was accepted |