Show ff PERFECT K b LU LOVER ER lye B by ELIZABETH L IZA B E T H E C H HOYT oy molly holly foss fos s was one oi of seven boven girls who had bad grown grow n up to together jether in easton molly alone had shown no signs 0 of t losing her heart sho she had studied d nursing and of course she might have gone on nursing peaceably ably forever had not dr richard nic liard randall come to town molly apparently dad not reciprocate dr richard nan Itan dalls devotion the first to speak to molly about it was carrie smith who had bad been carrio carrie waters carries husband i had bad had an attack of pneumonia onla and molly had come to help carrie out and doctor randall was the doctor ono night she told her friend just what she thought of her indifference to tho the young doctor molly my dear sho she said eald 7 am going to speak to you plainly let mo me tell you it is a great thing to have the de devotion voton of a man who Is interested in the same things you are think it over molly dear it was helen lake who spoke the next word to molly about doctor richard you ought to be mighty thankful molly foss helen said to have hava a man like doctor randall he la is so exactly the right size for you helen sighed A week or two later molly was calling on betty arnold wister shoso whoso husband peter had bad brought her much love and a salary of 0 16 15 a week molly said betty tho the slightest mischance would send us both to the poorhouse doctor randall la is the most prosperous person in easton grace mcpherson overtook molly a few days later molly she said you may think it Is none of my bustness business and I 1 am awfully silly but you know ive seen quite a lot of tom sears lately and I 1 like him very much but sundays he just stays at home and smokes and when he be takes me home from evening meeting ho be always watts waits outside the church door I 1 feel fed so wicked molly dr richard randall comes to church every sunday I 1 envy you molly gertrude fiske ingraham called on molly on purpose pose to deliver her message 1 I am going to tell you frankly she said that you dont halt half appreciate dr richard randalls family connections sections I 1 know a girl who lives in rye where ills his family came from and she arid his mother had bad just read a paper paper before the club on the mistake it was tor for relatives to come to live with a young couple I 1 vow I 1 never spoke of this before but what with mother ingraham and grandmother ingraham and cousin Sophron la and great aunt dorcas all living with percy and me and pl all wanting to run the house from pouring the tea to bringing up tho the baby I 1 tell you sometimes it almost breaks my heart hollys dearest friend lou thom thompson p who was to be ba married in juno juno came to molly a few weeks before tho the wedding molly she said bald 1 I know understand why I 1 tell you this for im doing it not to hurt john but for or your own sake I 1 love john but hes so forgetful of little things that sometimes he almost breaks my heart ile he take off his hat as soon as ho he comes borne into the house and things like that you know I 1 never dreamed ot of speaking of tills this before until youve had an experience like mine you wont know eliat manners can bo be more aggravating than anything else in tho the world and you ought to know i how important they are molly for dr richard randall has the best manners I 1 ever saw in any man in all my life then molly unburdened herself dear lou she said richard ran dallis too perfect he Is interested in tho the right thing he Is the right size he has a good Ine income hes got the I 1 best kind of habits and the best kind of relatives and hes eugenic and fatherly and generous and he has the I 1 best disposition in the world and 1 to cap the climax ho he has absolu absolutely telf flawless manners lou I 1 am not perfect myself and im not going to io marry a man who ls is it if I 1 ever did a thing that quite right or accepted you know richard would never say a word but I 1 would feel ills his reproach to the end of my days it if I 1 could only find one single little human falling in him I 1 would marry him but I 1 wont marry a perfect man and it if I 1 were you lou thompson id be mighty thankful that john does sometimes forget to take oft off his hat dr richard randall continued in his devotion and molly foss continued in her indifference until early last july on the fourth they were invited to dinner several miles from easton that night as they were driving home in the soft summer darkness for tho the seventh time richard randall asked molly foss to marry him blip and to his infinite surprise she said said yes yea without a moments hesitation they were married in september and lived even more happily than their friends had predicted richard was perfectly satisfied with molly and molly was perfectly satisfied with richard but ane one day alx months after the wedding richard looked at his wife very seriously and asked how was it that you said yes so suddenly on tho the way home from un cle rufus kings dearest richard molly said kissing him it was because you ate your peas with a spoon copyright 1916 by tho mcclure newspaper syndicate |