Show ROBERTAS HEART by JACK LAWTON 1918 elern Vl ern newspaper Newn paper anion robertas tas heart was broken at least eliat is what slie told herself its alle lic sat rending reading for the seventh time f harold lathrope Lath letter to have bare A in n ended because of some jealous misunderstanding would not have been half so bad but to be told in cold blood that the adored one had ceased to c care ar e this was sorrow sorro w and humiliation complete J wed better call it off was the suc I expression of harold nil all you 1 icare care about lestlie convenience of ald riding around in my car sometimes som eUmes you if kt arcely look at me and anyway theres a girl that was the better palt pait of it another girl critically Bob blo examined her own piquant face ace in the mirror what slie she saw there could not have been discouraging cou raging for dimples flashed out to jamock at the tears lu in her eyes J if she soliloquized 1 I could only snake make him sorry then in sudden inspiration she jumped to her feet i the very thing she murmured I 1 A and began a search tor for a last sun aldays paper yes there it was the pic yure ture of a society girl in company compan y with the handsome who had taken her aloft to in his bis machine perhaps it if bobble could find that airman a and ad per israde cdade him to announce her name as ibis ahls next nest daring passenger harold lathrop might realize that a broken heart beart can drive tt a girl to reckless i lengths I 1 it was not lick at all difficult to find the jav lator but more difficult to win him ato to her purpose though deferential to itt en degree the broad shouldered man of minerve i erve was stubbornly insistent upon 11 having haing the consent of robertas father before taking her up in his flight through the air and this consent roiberta iberta knew to be beyond the possibilities courteous in his mr coverly took time to show the girl the wot kings icings of the great machine escort log ang her thereafter through the yards but bobbie was not convinced of failure indeed now that she had seen the strong face of the flyer had sensed the calm power of his personality fear departed from the planned adv adventure denture cleaving ving a new and delightful anticipation she must go how wonderful to be salling sailing on through the clouds high above the turmoil of she the city sl bently like a flying bird and with that firm hand upon the wheel 1 again bobble sought the man as he lingered about the airplane ills his upward glance at her appearance was surely purely not one of annoyance oh please begged the girl in brief eloquence it 1 1 for one moment coverly hesitated and was lost for many day bobble went about I 1 with the appearance of a guilty child enjoying some hidden sugar plum but her ber name as an air passenger did not in the paper it was only in the silence of the night that she had aime to remember her broken heart upon one of the occasions in the se elusion of lier her room she drew toward after fter er pen and paper to what nhat purpose yah was the long flight through the air it harold knew not of its daring she must tell him and warn him also of the proposed longer fly she was still to take then no doubt in remorse lie he would come back back to beg her for his sake to risk no more the life that had been to him so precious but fOa eway leway as bobble paused picture failed to bring the usual tears teara instead her truant thoughts flew before her to the yards where the air hp lay dinv and to that serious browned face ace which never seemed to tire of its study udy 5 what was it he had said last evening in of going to alj aid his country and how w valuable would his service be hat steady thinking mind his brav rry bobble sighed as she penned the ote note dear harold tomorrow afternoon I 1 am taking a angelous ang crotis erous flight in an airplane over west est end park I 1 accept your decree that at our rather hasty engagement hould end enclosed end ring vo ro erta 11 and when she had bad sealed scaled the letter lid ind tile the ring with praiseworthy inter st for the possessor of a broken heart abble tried on her aviation cap early apon pon tile following afternoon mr harild ilar lathrop presented himself at hla his fprmer armer sweethearts home when llo ito lertas mother learned the cause of he e lovers return her anxiety was wag creater enter than her accusations the poor desperate child she loaned we must find her at once est end park did you say take ie e in your car immediately harold h b that we may be in time two very white faced people hastened tied across the broad stretch of land to the waters edge no ascent iad d been made that day an officer in armed them mr air conerly was ex toted to return shortly would they sit r f A so 90 in the car close to the roadway pother other and false lover waited soon hey ey were rewarded and relieved by he e sight of a small approaching car m like side of a mans uniformed 11 fig 91 lre e lint bobble laughing and glowing rawhy rK why mother she greeted why pother ther and aaro d J Tto robertas bertas mother was at her side in p instant promise me dear fhe f he Ir civit you will not take this airl trip and bobble eissed her 1 I w wont ont ie e sma sald mr coverly and I 1 were we re d un tin hour ago e he is ie leaving tonight n Is 19 terrace |