The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-15
Bright Stories For Young Readers.

that's all right. 1 haven't any OBJ
lection to hens" said Cts. in her funny
wav. but saddle horses are better
Shed always treated Felix well:
she's nice to everybody. But she heard
/ that he said that perhaps Cts Coleman
! would find, if her father did think he
owned the town, that Professor Morse
wouldn't have his vot for sale She
was SO hurt and angry that she cried,
and told her her motto must be War
to knife and the knife to the hiltr
How she plugged that week. One
evening. when 1 went for ner to go
wheeling with me, she just sent down q
card. Diggingr she'd written on it. and
under that she'd made a picture of a
girl on a horse and labeled it Me-
There was a real big audience that
Friday afternoon. There were a lot OF
people. besides Mr.. Gillespie OF course
the Colemans and the Hoyts and the
Bedells and the Haights were all there
and mighty interested. 1t was pretty
near like commencement.
There was some singing and sneak
ing, and thea Clara Haight and Frank
Bedeil had their examination: it wasn't
very long nor hard, and Clara came out
ahead. I didn't half listen to It. Cts
turn was coming next, and I just
scuirmea around in my seat.
CTS turned and gave me a look-a
wink, almost-and ! knew she was as
cool as she could be, and in elegant
trim for it; Felix was nervous: any
body could see that.
The professor started off with alge-
bra. Algebra was Felix's strong point,
and 1 thought he'd distinguish himself.
but he didn't, particularly. He didn't do
a bit better than Cts. And the rest of
US knew he couldn't distance CHS on
Latin. 'Cis'H get itn was what every
last one of US thought.
And did she?" said the girl in the
pink shirtwaist. breathlesslv.
Wait till you get to 'itr' shouted the
bow with the racket.
Well, right now comes the funny part
of it. said Hugh Rogers. ''Cic told me
about 1t afterward. when I wormed it
out Of her. She said that all through
the algebra part she'd been looking at
Felix Hoyt and his father and mother
and little sister. She couldn't keep her
eyes away from them Felix was get
ting pale, and you could see his hands
tremble. C;s would look at him. and
then she'd look at his folks. She said
his mother WIS leaning way forward
and his fathers eyes looked as if they'd
pop out of his head. Cts kept thinking
Felix was going TO do with the prize If
he got it. When she looked at his faith
er and mother she thought of the debts,
and when she looked at Felix she
feel bad
''She said Felix's mother looked as if
she'd worked all the flesh Oft her bones.
and his little sister-O, l don't know
what all she said I know I'd glanced
at the Hoyts once or twice. and al I
saw was a woman in cheap old bon
net. ard a man with ragged looking red
whiskers, and a little snub-nosed girl.
But Cts Coleman saw a lot more. She
saw right into them. She saw how fear
fully anxious they all were and how
he inc
his lips
She said it came over her all at
once. how much that money might
mean to them, little as it was. The
money wasn't anything to her: she only
wanted it for the honor of it. and be-
cause she'd get a horse into the bargain.
She said when she looked at the Hoyts.
50 poor and addressed. and so anxious.
it was all she could do to keep from
bursting out crying. it was so Ditiful TO
think such a little bit of money should
look like so much to them" The bicycle
girl cleared her throat TREMENDOUSLY. and
the girl in the pink shirtwaist winked
hard. She said she felt mean and selfish
and miserable. And she made uD her
'And-well, ST.. she did it, she an
severed two questions wrong. She did
it lust as easy and natural: it sounded
as though she'd tried TO think of the
right thing and couldn't. But we of the !
class, we Just stared at each other. for we
didn't know how to believe il was Cts
Coleman making such breaks in Latin.
"Cf course I knew Cts was out Of it /
then. I wanted to yell ar something: /
but had TO sit there while Mr. Giles /
pie presented the prizes to Felix Hovt |
and Clara Haight and the other two |
winners and the audience analauded
Il was mad as I could be: I marched !
over to Cts Coleman the minute we We're /
dismissed. Do You mean to say Cts |
Coleman, said I. You couldn't coniugate /
'Jaceo' without making u mista1es?' !
"Cis was looking over at the Hoyts.