Ralph Henry Barbour

“ Frank is a wonderful chauffeur and I always feel perfectly safe with him. He is not an ordinary chauffeur at all. When he left school he went to work in a bank, and was going to be president of it some day, but a friend took him out for a ride in an automobile and it was all over with Frank. He went to some sort of a night school where they teach you to run automobiles and take them to pieces and put them together again. When he got through there, he left the bank and went to work in a garage to get experience. His first position was with a Philadelphia man, who had a French car. ”

“ I knew him slightly when in college; not well, for we belonged to different sets, even different worlds. By accident, I heard of his injury from one of the doctors at the hospital, who is a friend of mine. I called to inquire about him and he made them bring me up to him. We talked a little and then, a week later, when he went to his home, he sent for me and asked me to stay with him. I had never done anything of the sort and told him so, but he insisted and offered me a salary that I couldn't resist. I am not well off, you see. ”

“ It does no good; in fact it works harm, to my thinking. If he would only see somebody now and then and keep in touch with the world. Why, he won't even let me read the papers to him. Things that he used to care about no longer interest him. And yet even there, there has been a change, for yesterday evening he asked me how the ball team was getting on and seemed rather interested when I told him we'd won the Princeton series. ”