Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-09-26
The Story Of a Serenade.

lege campus, heard his name spoken,
and looked up to see couple of stu
dents passing, but neither of them saw
him.
"That fellow from Boston," said
Bob, scornfully, "Id like to pull his
nose for him, by Jove. The impudent,
conceited puppy"
1.-The fellow from Boston" wasn't a
very particular friend of Bob's. Bob
had been quite intimate with q certain
pretty maiden with the brightest OF
mischievous eyes, and the most bewitch-
ing of smiles, before this Boston gentle.
man came. Since his advent Bob star
had been waning. The girl of the
bright eyes had transferred her bewitch-
ing smiles to the Boston gentleman, as
a natural consequence, Bob felt rather
sore over the matter.
$50 you think l cut Densmore out,
do you then?" Mr.. st. Clair was saying,
as they passed Bob. There was kind of
self-congratulation in the way in which
he said it, that made Bob feel decidedly
puSnacious.
"Of course you have" answered Mr..
st. Clair's companion. "Miss Lucy
Osgood hasn't smile for any one but
you now. Before YOU came Densmore
got all the smiles in that direction"
wonder how he takes it?" asked
St. Clair.
don't know, answered his friend.
Il don't know whether he was in ear
nest, or whether his affair with Miss
Lucie was merely a Irritation. If it
was Irritation merely, he probably
doesn't lay it to heart much
No, probably not" answered st.
Clair. "But then, after all, it must
make q fellow feel deuced cheap to see
some one else step in and cut him OUT
even if he isn't in earnest" One would
have inferred from Mr.. st. Clair's self
satisfied tone that he didn't know what
it was to be cut out.
The conccited fool, exclaimed Bob.
"I'll be even with you yet, Mr.. St.
Clair. JUST make memorandum of
that"
Now Bob had never "cared CONT
mental" as the old saying goes among
college boys, for Lucie Osgood. He
liked to call there to pass away time;
liked to take her out riding, and to
dance with her, but he had never been
in earnest. He was glad now that he
never had been. All that felt hurt was
his--well, vanity is as good name for
it rs any I suppose. His heart was
sound. But, rs st. Clair had said, it
piqued him to think some one had more
influence over the capricious Miss Lucie
than he had.
"Ill show them that I'm not heart
broken" said Bob.
And shortly after that he had
fine chance of doing SO. The was a
party in town, and Lucie, and "that
fellow from Boston," and Bob were
there.
Bob was among the gayest. He
didn't try to avoid Lucie in the least.
He laughed and chatted with Der in his
easy way, the same as he did with the
other girls, and no one would ever have
dreamed that there had been any kind
of intimacy between them. Bob was a
handsome fellow, and one of the most
popular boys in the college,; he piqued
Lucie to see how little he seemed to
take her recreaney to heart, and so she
tried to be rather more winning than
she had been of late. She didn't like
to think that her admirers could shake
off her influence SO easily. 1t didn't re-
fleet much credit on her fascinating
powers.
But Bob wasn't to be caught with
chatf again. He was attentive to the
wall-fowers, if there were any, as he
was to Lucie.
He was sitting with her on the piazza,
in the shade of rose-vine, when two
gentlemen came up the steps, talking.
One of them was St. Clair.
$50 you thought the little Osgood
had smitten me, eh ?" he was saying
when Bob and Lucie first saw them.
" Not any, thank you!" and St. Clair
laughed lightly" "She's pretty lit
tie girl. but not exactly my style.
When do any young lady the honor
of making her Mrs. ST. Clair, she must
combine more attractions than Miss
Lucie does. Oh!'-with yawn, "shell
do to firt with. Ones got to have
something to amuse himself, you know"
Bob saw Lucie's face grow as red as
the roses beside her.
"The fool! she exclaimed, as st,
Clair passed into the house, " I wonder
if he thinks care a pin for him? 1
just hate him!"
Miss Lucie was ready to cry with
yeXation.
ooh, wouldn't mind it in the least"
said Bob, as if he were giving fatherly
advice. "You'll get over it."
Lucie flashed an indignant look at
him from her angry eyes, and sailed
into the house.
Bob felt pretty we'll satisfied with the
turn affairs had taken. He had
showed both st. Clair and Lucie that
his heart was as whole as ever, and he
was confident that their Irritation had
about come to an end
A day or two afteaward he found