j The Han of Her Choice
By Vim. J. Lampion.
MA15Y HOWARD was the prettiest
uiumlu'rinuiil in the liotol, anil
-Nil'. Donn was t In oldest bonrili'r
Not oldest in point of years, but in
point of ocenpaney, although he was
not. as young as he was when
lie passed his fiftieth birthday. He
roomed on the door that .Mary had
the care of, and after a year's ae
piaintnnue with her he had decided
in'his own mint! tint he was a very
nine frill. .Mary liked .Mr. Donn well
enough, but that u.is all. for he was a
bachelor, and she rather had her
doubts about such old bachelors as he
was. Hut Mr. Doan was rich and
liberal, and so polite alway that he
gradually won favor in .Mary's eyes.
One Sunday when she was fixing
up his room, which was the only time
she ever saw him there, he began talk
ing to her.
"Do you know, Mary." he said, with
evident sincerity, "that you are the
prettiest girl in the hotel?"
"Yes. sir," replied Mary.
Mr. Doan was somewhat staggered
by this unexpected frankness.
"Oh. you do, doyou?" he responded,
a little nettled.
"I ought to," she said: "every man
1 have seen in this hotel has told me
so, except you. and now you have, so
thej' can't all be telling stories."
This explanation ditl not tpiite suit
Sir. Doan, but Mary was quick-witted,
and he let it go as she put it.
"I presume," he said, apologetically.
"I ought to have told you so before,
because I have known it ever since the.
first day I saw you, but you seemed
to me to be a lady, and 1 did not
want you to think that 1 was not a
gentleman."
"And I am a lady, Mr. Doan. as my
mother was mid still is, but 1 am a
lady in distress, as the story-tellers
liave it. Two years ngo my father
died, leaving us nothing but a little
house away out in the suburbs, where
my mother and brother live. He never
was rich, but he was a gentleman,
and when he left us poor, somebody
had to do something, and I took this
place. It was the only thing I could
do for wages right from the start,
and we needed something to live on.
My brother found a place in a store,
and between us we manage to live."
"You're as good a girl as you are
pretty, Mary," saitl Mr. Doan, "and I
must go out and see thai mother of
yours."
So lie did, too, and came back with
very agreeable impressions of the
sweet old lady of CO that he had met.
"Mary," he said on the following
Sunday, "how would you like me to
be your father?"
"You are quite oltl enough to be,"
she said, sharply, "but you are not
old enough to be my mother's hus
band, if that is what you are leading
up to."
"I don't know about that," he
laughed. "A woman's heart is always
young."
But Mar- did riot like the subject,
and went out without continuing the
conversation. Half an hour later us
she was carrying a roll of quilts across
the hah in front of the elevator, into
which Mr. Doan had just stepped, that
always uncertain method of locomo
tion got loose and started down the
shaft for the bottom, seven floors be
low. Mary knew what was coming, or
going, rather, anil with a scream she
dashed the roll of quilts into the open
door. The cage had only a slight start
and the quilts were caught anil
wedged in between the floor and the
elevator roof and the downward move
ment stopped with a noise like a wheel
taking a rubber brake. Mary dropped
in a faint. Mr. Doan almost had a
spasm in the elevator where he. wa
boxed' up, the elevator boy came run
ning from a room where he had gone
to deliver a message, somebody turned '
in a fire alarm ami the whole place j
was' in an uproar. The firemen were
restrained from turning the hose !
on Mr. Doan, and busied themselves
rigging timbers in the elevator shaft i
below the cage to catch it, when the I
qulits were withdrawn, and presently
Mr. Doan came down with a thump,
and walked out scared almost white.
The papers next morning had a
whole column about it, with a large,
picture of Mary, the big headlines
about the heroism of u chambermaid.
Jt happened on Friday, and on Sunday
Mary was at her post again. When
Mr. Doan saw her lie did not wait to
ask her about the (lowers lie had sent
to her house, nor about his having
vailed to see her without seeing her.
"Mary," he said, in the matter of
fact way of a man of 50, "you saved
my life, and I want to do something
to show my appreciation of it."
"Oh, Mr. Doan," she almost pleaded,
"don't say anything more aboul it.
1 didn't do anything."
"You saved my life, Isn't that any
thing? it is to me if It isn't to you!"
"I would have done Just the bume
for Tom."
Tom was the elevutor boy. 1
"Well, I'm going to offer you some
thing u kid like ,Toiu couldn't offer
you, and that is the heart mid the
hand of an elderly man."
"You mean yoitCwjutl. tto marry me
for saving your life?" asked Mary
completely dazed,
"Not exactly, Mary. I ti," hes
itated Mr. Doan.
"It's just the sanie thing, and T
can't permit It," said Mary resolutely
"You are rich and 1 am poor, and' it
would be just as if T saved1 you for
what von might give, and I didn't do
that."
Mr. Doan tried his best to argue her
into consent, but the harder he talked
the harder crew her nrettv head, and
he gave up tlnally in despair. He went
to see her mother that afternoon, and
the mother promised to do what she
could, for she liked Mr. Donn. Still
Mar would not listen to reason. She
said if she had money it might be dif
ferent, for then people could not saj
she saved the man for his money, It
was really n silly and foolisn position
she had taken, but young women do
silly and foolish things more times
than a few. Mr. Doan thought there
might be a younger man, but said
nothing.
One morning a week later Mary re
ceived a note asking her to call at .Mr.
Dunn's otliee. Greatly puzzled, she
went, and Mr. Doan and another man
were waiting for her. The other man
was Mr. Doan's lawyer.
"Mary." said Mr. Doan. after the
tibial salutations and an introduc
tion, "can you give me a dollar?"
Mary took out her thin little purse
and found three quarters, three nick
els and a dime, which she handed out
to Mr. Doan without a question.
"I'd like to borrow a nickel of it for
car fare," she laughed nervously.
"You won't need it. Miss Howard,"
said the lawyer politely.
"Here are some papers, .Mary," said
.Mr. Dv.in, handing her a large packet,
"You won't understand them if you
look at them, so I will merely tt 11 you
that they are deeds to all the real
property I own and include the cer
tificates of all the stocks in my pos
session. Indeed, everything is there
if you will look them over. They are
yours."
Mary, in a dazed fashion, opened the
packet, and the only thing she could
read was: "Know All .Men My These
Presents, that for and in considera
tion of one dollar in hand to me paid."
etc., etc., and she didn't do a thing but.
drop the papers and begin to cry. The
lawyer discreetly got out of the of
fice, and Mr. Doan stepped over to
the window. The room was still ex
cept for Mary's faint snillle, and the
twittering of a couple of sparrows on
the telegraph wire in front, of the
window. The stillness seemed to soothe
the perturl.ed spirit , and presently she
lifted her face from her wet hand
kerchief and glanced shyly up at Mr.
Doan. lie did not see her. Hhe got up
and went over to him, sobbing a little
yet.
".Mr. Doan," she said, putting out
her hand, only one hand, to him, "is it
true that you have given me every
thing?" "Hverything in the world 1 own,
Mary, and I am poor ns a church
mouse."
"Hut Mr. Doan " she protested.
"Not a word," he broke in. "If i'
hadn't been for you I would have lost
it all by leaving it to a lot of people
I don't like, and if yon nave it I know
it will be where it will do much good
Don't you worry, my dtnr. 1 am not
co old that I can't hustle around and
make a pretty good living yet. I can
do it a good ikal better than you
tan."
Mary looked at him and again the
tears filled her eyes.
"Mr. Doan," she said, "if T were to
tell you that there was a younger
man I loved; one whom 1 hail known
since I was a little girl and who had
been waiting until he could earn
enough to make us comfortable, would
you st.il let me have this money?
Aren't you giving it to me because you
to not know this and hqpe to win iin
with it?"
Mr. Doan choked a little. He hail
not heard of this young man. Per
haps If he had he would1 have been
less generous. He might have given
him a position in his office or helped
fiitn along in some other way. It was
hardly necessary to impoverish him
e1f for the sake of letting the woman
he wanted for his wife marry another
man. Hut Mr. Doan had the right
kind of stuff in his make-up.
"I don't know what you want to do
with it, Mary, and I don't enre," he
aid bravely. "What I want It to do
is to make you the happiest woman
in the world, and that will make inn
feel it is where it will do the most
good. All I ask is that when I am too
old to work any longer you will board
and lodge me nt a reduced rate and
give me a fair funeral."
Mr. Doan laughed at his joke, bill
Mary did not. She put out both her
hand to him.
"There is no younger man, Mr.
Doan," she said, "and if you will have
me for your wife, you may "
Mr. Doan acted ridiculously for a
man of his years, lie shouted and
made a wild grab for Mary.
"You bet I " he began, when she
broke away from him and warned
him off."
"On one condition," she said,
"Name a dozen," lie replied with
crazy liberality.
"One is enough, and that one is
that you give me back my dollar."
He handed her over the money and
shouted fo the lawyer to come in.
"Think of it," he said to that gen
tleman, "she will marry me on the
simple condition that I give her back
the dollar she gave me,"
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