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• 3 - 5 r"*'**'' > v / .<* Clang - clang- clang-a-lang-a-!ang-a- lang! Down tho broad, brilliantly lighted avenue swept a heavy flro truck, its five dappled horses united in a mad gallop. Ten-year-old Teddy O'Neill, Western Union messenger boy,, cut suddenly Into the avenue from a side street and circled on his wheel like an caglo. His eyes f<* a struggle 'twixt duty and pleasura. Then an ongine_dashed into tight It was drawn by three magnificent blacks, and in the darkness it gleamed like a demon, spitting fire and smoke. Teddy gave a howl of enthusiasm and followed in Its wake. For block after block he trailed the wheel of the engine, bending low over bis handle bars. Something of the spirit of the fire-fighters of old was In h*s blood, and though his little heart was pounding with sudden stress he held the pace, his short legs dancing mechanically with the pedals. At the cross street a trolley ear blocked the way. A collision seemed inevitable. The driver rose In his seat, Jammed tho brake down,'and drew with all his strength on the lines. The blacks came down on their hsunches and with stiffened forelegs slid on the smooth pavement. Just In time the heavy engine came to a stop. Bnt Teddy,.pedaling.as though for a record, with his eyes to the ground, knew not of the obstruction. Suddenly the shining engine loomed before him. He threw np his arms and with a Uttla cry dashed Into the heavy steel-shod wheels. A crowd gathered quickly. Gentle hands bore the limp and mangled body to a nearby bosnit&L When Teddy awokw be lay fn a white Iron bed. In a long room, with many other beds-on each tide of him. He tried hard to remember. What did It all meant And what made the pain in hie head, hit cheat, his legit He gave a little grosnr A woman came ta the bed end leaned over him. Tear* afterward he I W JHuim Eepiteaaescma. said gently. ."As you nay." he needs something beyond drugs. 1 * So they separated, and the doctor went to his room to study. But-his mind was not content with books. It dwelt upon Amy, as she appeared but a ehort time before. It occurred to him that ho had thought of her many times in the past few weeks. But then It was lowed the truck with longing. It was purely professional—their common In- * — terestm the medical aspect of thdi work. She was a very competent nurse and very attractive. Her eyes and her mouth and that little wisp of hair that always curled over her ear stood before liim. But pshaw, it meant noth ing. Thus ho tried to trick his con science, deceiving himself and saying it was not so, when, in some deeper eub-conseiousncss be knew that it-was so and really could not bo otherwise, and that he was hopelessly in tho toils. This is love's alchemy, la the dimly lighted ward Amy was at Toady s bedside. The boy was wake ful and restless. Ho wanted company. Though her duty was over she stayed with him, talking in a whisper. Bit by bit she drew from him the story of his brief, hard life. Ho had no memory of father or mother. He had lived with an aunt, who beat him; so ho ran away and finally graduated from newsboy to telegraph messenger. Hp was a doubter. Even Santa Claus, that patron saint of the children, was to him a myth—“only for rich folks' kids," he said. But when she told him how Santa Claus would come to all children, rich and poor, if he only knew where they lived, his eyes grew big with Interest. "Teddy,” the said, "it Santa Claus will come here on Christmas day and bring yon Iota of presents and a Christmas tree will you try to get went” Teddy thought hard. “Guess that might be worth getttn' well for,” he •aid with a “But ho won't come. I hung np my stockin’ onct, an’ they wasn’t nothin’ In It” It must have been a bitter disappointment, for tho light faded from his eyes and tho old THE SPIRIT OF THE recalled that vision—tho resting on waves of brown smothed his hot brow and oool water. Then delirium I ■■ and for weeks he hovered between Ufe and death, whllb Amy Norton, the head nurse, watched him as though he were her very own In those endless dayB and nights of physical anguish, when be could cont- prebend only two conditions—peln and the absence of pain—Amy teemed to him a brooding Spirit of Deliverance Always there, when he needed her, divining the cause of his discomfort and quick with measures of relief, the became In the highest same a pother to this metheriess wait So the days passed, and gradually Teddy responded to the care of nurse and doctor and awoke to conscious ness of things about him. Hit twisted arm was almost restored to use; his crushed leg, though In t heavy plaster cast was mending rapidly; bnt ns complained of pain In his chest, where the .engine wheels hsd broken tne ribs. It hurt him to breaths, he mid Now and then a .spell of coughing shook his little frame and left Wm panting for breath. Then, recovering he would watch Amy at her work, his eyes following, her np and own tne room. He was disinclined to eat, and daily his face became whiter **<} IM* 1 ner, and his eyes bigger and blacker. It eras Dr. Stone’s custom to meet Amy to the operating room seve-ai times-a week for consultation. One evening they talked of Teddy, ihe doctor shook his head gravely. He was a handsome, young man, wttn close-cut, dark beard. In their common purpose—the -rssene Of tbls dying c^ Phan child—their hearts best together "Can you not stimulate him some how?" he asked. "He la very low. Any little complication—a ferer, erea n cold—might end It all. He is too p** tive. He does not care. He seems to he merely awaiting the end. We can not get results under such eondltlons It is not now a case for medicine. There Is nothing in all the pharmacopoeia that I can think of to awaken him. For some minutes they sat In silence All the mother love In Amy’s heart was stirred. Poor little wall—no par ents, no home, and Christmas close al hand. A great light dawned within her Christmas—the day of days for chil dren all over the world! She turned her deep, thoughtful eyes upon the doctor "Let me take the case,’* she FIGHTERS OF OLD WAS IN BIS BLOOD. look of despair crept Into his face. "Yes he will, Teddy. I’ll send him word. 1 know he’ll come Teddy, If you'll only get watt. You know tho doctor and I are trying so bard, to make you strong, but you must help. Medicine won't do It all. You must think about getting better, and try to eat and laugh and be happy. And the first thing yon know all the pain will go away and you will bo Just as Well as I am." It was a largo idea, and his little mind could not take it In easily. "How can yon tell him where I am?" He was suspicions. “Why, R1 send him a letter.” "Couldn’t you send him a telegram? It'd giti there lots quicker. An' tell him to answer paid.” Ho was on fa miliar ground now. She thought It over a little before She replied. "All right, Teddy, 111 send him a telegram. And if he says ball come will you try real hard, dearie?" Tears of hope stood la her '“Ye*,” he said finally. "If he says hell bring me a tree with lots of red an’ blue an’ green an’ yellow things on It, an’-some candy, an’—an'—a lo comotive lngyne what'll run all by It- Belt" She drew tho covers around his nock and tucked him in snugly. "Ill tell him, dearie," she said. "And I just know bell bring the 'lngyne'. Now go to sleep and yon'll wake up in the morning lots better." She stroked the little hod gently. Slowly his eyes closed and ha slept. Amy went to her room. At her desk ■he wrote A note to the manager of the telegraph company, and taking it to the front door dropped It in the let ter box with s little prayer. Teddy's first words the next morn ing were full of anticipation. "Got that wire yet?" Amy smiled reaaaur- ingly. "Oh, it’s too early. Wait till this afternoon.” He ate his breakfast with relish, and there was a new rote In -his voice when the doctor came In. But it was a part of their plan that the doctor should not know, and though Teddy was on the peak of expectancy he kept the secret. At three o'clock a messenger brought Amy a yellow envelope, and she took it straight to Teddy's bed. He reached for It eagerly, tore It open, end with shining eyes read the mee- eage: W1H stop by some time Christmas morning. Too busy to see yon, but will lea?e a few reminders. Hang up slocking. Santa Claus. He looked up into her face with an expression of rapture. "That's straight goods,” he said. “It’s the real thing even to the press copy." Then bis thoughts took a long jump. “Hoe long before Christmas?" he asked. During the next three weeks Aroj was very busy. She bad to calculate closely for the money. Uor salary was small, and there was her widowed mother to caro for. But her anxiety was unnecessary. One day a note came from the manager of tho tele graph company. The boys In the office had taken us a little collection fot Teddy’s Christmas, he said, and it was his pleasure to send her tho cash—ten dollars and eiglity-seven cents. What a' God-scnd! Teddy should have a royal Christmas—even to tho “ingyne" that would go by Itself. There was now no doubt that Teddy was improving. Day by day the thin face filled out. His color returned. He was eating regularly, Bleeping soundly, and the spells or coughing were less frequent. Tho doctor spoke of the change, but Amy was uncom municatlve. “Somo new influence Is at work,” he said to her one day. It was just a week before Christmas. “The gain is most remarkable. Tell me, Mis3 Nor ton, what wonderful elixir have you given him? I may need it myself be fore long. I, too, have a malady that defies drugs.” She looked at hlm in sudden fear— then flushed before his strong, tender gaze. “I cannot tell yoj now.” Her eyes were turned away. Her face was bright with pleasure. 'But can’t I know soon?” ho asked, with an almost boyish, pleading In his voice. “Name a day when 1 may ask and be answered.” She turned to him with a new light in her eyes. Something told her that his Interest was not in Teddy alone. “Ask me Christmas morning.” she whispered, “and I will tell you; not a day before.” And try as he might ho could get no moro from her. Christmas eve arrived, with wind and snow end bitter cold. Teddy feared the weather would keep Santa Claus away. But Amy reassured him. “Oh, Santa Claus likes the snow. He rides in a big sleigh with a long team of reindeers. He’s sure to get here some time in the night. We’ll hang up your stocking right here on the bedpost. And then you must go to sleep early.'* At eight o'clock she went off duty. Teddy didn’t get to Bleep as directed, for excitement, hut finally he fell into a deep slumber. His telegram in his hand, and his long black stocking hung in plain sight on the bedpost. All over the city, fathers and mothers were commencing their work of love, and Amy, tired though she was, began her own. Ill a private room, stood the tree. The floor was strewn with packages. She had no assistanco, but she worked on, with strings of popcorn and cran berries, fancy bags of candy, brilliant glass balls, and showers cf tinsel Near midnight four strong men came from the lower ward, and Teddy’s lit tie iron bed, .with Teddy sound asleep, was carried gently Into tho privato room. Then sho slipped away to her rest. It seemed to Amy that but a few minutes had clapped when sho was awakened by the alarm clock on her bureau. Sho arose, made a light, and bathed her faco again and again In the cold water until she*felt ablo to keep her eyes open. It was five o’clock— atill dark. She entered Teddy's room and turned on tho electric light. IIo was sleeping quietly. There was a step In tho hall and the door opened. It was tho doctor—his face a study. She held up a warning finger, then, turned to the bed and reaching down took tho hoy in her arms and hissed him. "Teddy/ oho cried, a little sob in her volco “Teddy, Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Teddy.” Teddy woke suddenly and sat bolt upright. Ho gave a shout of Joy. “Oh'h'b," ho cried. In & long, echoing gasp. "Oh, Jimminy Whilliklns, ain’t that great.” Then words failed him, and he could only look and look, hia eyes feasting on wonders that his longue could not describe. They put a warm bathrobe around him and placed him on tho floor, for ho was not yet able to walk. By his side An)y laid the stocking, now bulging with treasures. In front oi him stood tho “ingyno” and many other things dear to boyish hearts Ho handled them one after another In silent awe. Then he took the stock ing and with delicious deliberation poured from it a wealth of treasures. He was dazed by his sudden accumu lation of riches. Ho looked up at them with a smilo. “That’s a bully Santa Claus,” he said. “IIo done his part nobly. I’m goin’ to get well all right.” After a while they put him back to lied, with his gifts spread around him, and together left the room: The dawn was breaking. Tho busy world was waking. From without came the toot ing of horns. Beils wore ringing ail over the great city...It was Christmas The doctor went with her to -her doer. Even In the dim light of the hall he could see the drawn lines about her mouth and eyes, her trem ulous lips. “You must go back to bed,” he said anxiously. “I will see that you sro not disturbed until noon. You are tired out” Fhe did not try to speak, fearing that she would cry instead. "You have won a great victory over death,” he said. "The Injuries are nothing now; he will recover. It Is the desire to live that you have fra* planted In him—that Is the triumph.” Then, on sudden impulse, he put bis arms about her. “Oh, Amy, Amy/* he *»f»fd brokenly. "You have saved his life; will you not save mine, dear? Will you say yes? I cannot live with out you.” Then he wnr rom*. ftMwi her trem bling llns h*s l* ,e s burned I’Ve sweet fire.. Half fainting, her heart going like a trip-hammer, she closed the door and sank upon the bed. Gradually peace came to her. and slumber. In her dreams she heard him calling? “Amy, Amy, I cannot live without 70u.” And suddenly she awoke. In the broad sunlight, smiling, and whisper Ing to he-aelf: “Herbert, Herbert, yes, with all my soul.” CLEVER SOMAN DETECTITE. MISS ADELAIDE C. RUSSELL A MO XU MOST SUCCESSFUL OF MODERN SLEUTHS. Assumes Many Peculiar Disguises and Visits Little Known Sectiona ls relented Musician and Accom plished Linguist. Equipped with a personality as charming as it is distinctive Miss Ade laide C. Ru38ell has joined the army of women workers, but in such a unique way that her accomplishments cannot fail to interest other women through out the entire country. Miss Russell is a detective, but the many disagreeable attributes which are commonly supposed to go hand in hand with this profession are wanting In the case of this Interesting young woman who follows it rather from a love of its adventures than for the results which it brings about. Six years’ service in connection with tho New York Pinkerton forces and on private work have given to Miss Rus sell a fund of interesting experiences FR LADIES THIS Handsome For Scarf GIVEN AWAY i your Mme and address and we will send you 1 Jewelry novelties to will buy s will at Handsome Fur Scarf It U ne*rly -18 inchea long, made from black Lynx fur, has six full, bushy tabs, very Isrest style, and we know you will be more than pleased with It. When you receive it wc knov you will say It Is the most elezsat and thoroughly good fur you have ever seen. Nothing aimilar to this scarf has ever before been offered as a premium; If will give years of satisfactory wear. It gives a stylisb, dressy effect to the wearer's appearance. The only reason we can offer them la we had a large number of them made op for us by one of the large furrier* during the summer when trade was quiet; this is the only resaon we are able " offer such sa expensive premium. We hope you will COLUMBIA NOVELTY CO., D«pt 655* Cast Boston* Mass* MISS ADELAIDE C. RUSSELL which havo made her life' a succes sion or incidents well calculated to Wf avo them: * Ives into a score of melo dramas If sho'would only relato them. Miss Russell in still in, her twenties but during the six years sho has been a detective; she has b en all around the world and has adopted many dif ferent disguises. Sho nover works through her own personality, but adopts tho various disguises as. tho occasion warrants. Further than this she has tho remarkable record of never having known failure. Of tho hundreds ol cases on which sho has worked sho has obtained tho results for which she started and to-day her record is one Of continual successes. Has Figured la Famoy* Cases If one were given a thousand chances to namo Miss Russell's profession, that of detective would never figure on the list. One might take her for a singer, probably for an actress, maybe for a newspaper woman, but never class hex as a clever sleuth who has figured in some of tho moit famous cases In this country and Europe. During the Paris Exposition Miss Russell worked on several forgery cases which had tholr localo in Paris. In order to gain knowledge to bo used as evidence in these cases Ml3S Rus sell, who is a talented musician and plays the harp skillfully, dressed as a street musician, again as a newsboy and still again as a hostel waitress. One of tho most celebrated divorce cases this country has ever known was brought to a climax through evidence secured by Miss Russell. The husband was tho offender and went to Mexico. Mils Russell followed him there, hired herself as a maid and traveled with tho pcoplo all over Europe. Sho was gone eight months and when the case finally came to trial and the man found that he had been paying the expenses of a detective for nearly a year he at tempted to kill Miss Russell. Her ready use of a small pistol which she always carried saved her life. Miss Russell admits that for once her heart was In her mouth, although the fright was only momentary. Disguised as a New aboy. In New York Miss Russell has sold dozens of newspapers among the crowd of “newsies” about Wall street She acknowledges that in nearly all the divorce cases which fall to hex share her sympathy is with the wife Recently she had such a case to follow up and haring located her people in the outskirts of a certain large city Mist Russell visited the house nearly every day, but always In a different disguise. First she went as a man, wearing a little light mustache; again she went aa a little old German woman selling berbe. Her accent was %o broken that she could hardly be un derstood and she put up such a story of bard luck that she was Invited to come again, which of course, ehe did. The lady has a particularly charm ing personality. Her voice is soft and cultivated, but can be made to change almost Instantly. She Is handsome and has a most striking individuality. She speaks a half dozen languages fluently, is a gifted musician, and has a keen *ense of a clue which would do honor to the best men detectives in the bus!- ness. On one occasion when the was on ie scent of a foreer In New York, she was obliged to follow him from the house in which they wer* both stop ping to a railroad station'. He took the train for Philadelphia, and al though Miss Russell had not time to put on her hat and coat she, too jumped on the train. Her badge car ried her, but when she got to Phil adelphia she gave the tip to a depot dotectivo to watch the man while she hurried into the ladies* waiting room and paid the maid two dollan for the latter’s hat. Miss Russell declares it was not the most modish hat she ever known, but it covered her head and gave her an opportunity to con tinue “shadowing” her man, whom she finally ran to cover, and made her ca3C. Free Training of Xarses. 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