The Ravalli Republican., 1898-08-31

tie, was oppressed by the blue rug,
stiHed by the perfume of tho blue
violets.
Tho two blue silk flags on the seat
before hel, with their staring and
obtrusve white Us, tempted her
each moment to pitch them out OF
yielded to the temptation had it not
been for the sudden view through
that same window OF smooth, light
brown head, whose owner was
hanging on to the platform Of q
passing car apparently by his teeth.
He had been III town; then he was
probably taking that horrid Miller
girl to the game! For five minutes
Miss Duer was SO smiling and gra-
cious that MI. Forester actually
slipped his fingers into his waistcoat
pocket, deciding that delay was dan
gerous; then she relapsed into gloom,
and the fingers slipped out again.
It was / 40 o'clock when they
reached the field and pushed THEN
way through the crowd to tho Yale
side. The two long lines Of seats
were already filled, the ends crowd
ed In the midst Of a solid mass of
blue Kathleen saw two vacant
places, and, being assisted up to
them, felt her humiliation complete.
Some pretty ''blue" girls looked
at her with curiosity. The men
with them, whom she had met at
Poughkeepsie last summer when she
had been crimson from head to heel,
lifted their hats, smiling, rs she in
dignantly felt, triumphantly, as Mr..
Forester, with an air Of proprietor
ship that was CALLING, put her into
her seat, tucked the blue robe over
her knees and settled himself com
fortably at her side, the bluo flags
ready for action.
In her misery she tried to bluff.
After all, what was Harvard to herr
Her father was a Baltimorcan, edu-
Gated abroad, hor brothers Johns
Hopkins men. Why should she feel
herself q traitor because she was
watching the Yale Harvard game
from Yale seats, the guest OF a Yale
man, q blue flag in her hand2 -
Plausible, but useless! She loved
Boston as we'll as if she had been
born in her mothors old home on
Beacon Hill; Harvard was the cnly
college in the world for the daugh-
ter Of q Wo]cott, the granddaughter
Of a Win .hrop. She was q traitor,
and she knew it. The mass Of Grim
son before her seemed to take form
and .listinctncss, and TO heH excited
imagination tho faces Of all her
friends, notably the gang, y stood
out, renroachfully ard critically
gazing at her. .~. .~.." ..= w
Suddenly came q quick yell, swell,
ing and deepening the Yale cheer--
and when it was endcd-loud and
generous applause from ali sides
and colors; then q tl@afcninS shout
from everywhere, as tho Yale team
camo in 1T one end Of the field, and,
Immediately following, from the
opposite corner, through the seats
from below, the team dear to the
hearts Of all Boston, all New Eng
land, the Harvard eleven!
The bluo of an instant before was
eclipsed now by the flash Of Grim
son, and as the "Rull, 'rah, rah,
Har-vull!' rent the air, Kathleen
Duer started up, then dropped back
in her seat, shamofaccl and abash
ed, the blue flag falling from her
nerveless fingers
AS it has been since the memory
Of man, Vale won the toss and took
the wind. Time after time Harvard S
backs carried the ball up the field,
only to lose it and have it kicked
. back.
Kathleen sat breathless. Dividing
! her attention between the field and
the pntronizinS assurances at he1
side that all was going we'll 'fOl
us, she ignored her neighbors on
the other side. It was not until that
happening Of tho unexpected, that
brilliant punt against the wind,
when a red flag sprang defiantly
into being beside her, that she rec,
osnized in the cheering voice the
one that had initiated her into the
mysteries of football and taught he1
how to cheer for Harvard.
"You! On the Vale side!' sht
exclaimed. and he answered.
"Yes, Miss Duer, but wearing thu
right colors.' They had not cx
changed another word, but she ha(
taken time to glance carelessl5
around him and note that beyon(
was nothing but men.
It was when the bail was at Yale
Is yard line and Yale putting up he
gallant defense that Kathleen Due
fclt hand on her arm and shskin!
, it off Indignantly she turned to Sc
Mr.. Forester holding a handl1er
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