The Advocate and news., 1899-03-15

ing a simpering smile on her teacher,
"Oh l can't get that, 1 never will learn
this lesson, It's too hard"
Perhaps 1t would be easier if you had
practiCed 1t at home" answered Eber-
hardt, with look Of disgust.
Honest, Mr. Bberhardt, only had
time to run over the lesson once before
/ came, but l knew that you wouldn't be
hard on me-" this with what she meant
to be look Of crushing sweetness,
come, be good to me, see will give you
this rose bud" And taking 1t from her
dress she pinned it on the lapel of his
coat, saying, you know one deserves
some credit far climbing those three
flights OF horrid stairs, you really ought
tn have an elevator up to your sky par
lOr."
Miss Barnum, you must really pay
more attention to your lesson" answered
Eberhardt, smiling in spite Of himself,
for with all her flippancy she was so
naively sweet and pretty that 1t would
have taken stonier heart than Malcolm
Eberhardt possessed to Withstand the
persuasive power of those violet eyes,
that rosebud face and sweet voice i'm
ploring him not to scold her. 1t might
have had more potent effect If being
made love to" were not such an every
day affair that the effect had somewhat
palled on him. Hardly day passed that
some pupil did not try to captivate him
with her charms. How he did wish at
such times that it would not be cOnsid-
erede ungallant to slap girl or order her
out of the studio as he would a boy be-
having in like ridiculous manner He
was too thorough teacher to enjoy any
thing which interfered with his pupils
progress. He wondered If all teachers
had the same experience or If he was
lacking in proper discipline. 1t never
seemed to dawn upon him that it was his
handsome face and manly carriage that
captured the silly girls and kept even the
sober ones busy trying to hide their ad-
miration.
Miss Barnum and her teacher made
several more fruitless attempts to run
through" the lesson, but finally gave it
up, Miss Barnum protesting with tears
in her eyes that she Couldn't get it, ,"
until Eberhardt gave up in despair,
pleading with her to come with better
lesson next Time" but taking no con-
ISOLATION in her promises, for we'll he
knew that next week the same old story
would be repeated. Human nature gave
way at last to the wiles of the fair sex
and Malcolm Eberhardt spent the rest
of the hour entertaining his gay young
pupil by playing waltzes and two-steps
and the latest songs, so the time passed
quite pleasantly for both Of them. And
Miss Barnum departed feeling as happy
as if she had had perfect lesson.
The next pupil was an easy victim,
a little boy who was so much i'm earnest
and was so devoted to his instrument
that he practiced until his wristwa swol-
len to twice its natural size. They were
in the midst of the lesson when rap on
the door interrupted them and the dri-
yer of Miss Gays trap stated that the
lady was down stairs and wished to speak
with him. Hurrying down he bowed to
Miss Gay who was all that her name i'm
piled, gushing in the extreme.
Hello, Malcolm, do you love me as
much as ever?" she called out from her
perched up position In the trap. II just
called to tell you that / can't take my les
son to-day as I think that I had better
save my strength for the party tonight
Oh we're going to have the swellest time;
that dashing Miss Evans from Chicago
is to be there. Are you going?"
The young man was not taken aback
as much as one might suppose by her
salutation, being quite used to similar
ones, and answered, II am sorry to have
you miss a. lesson, but you must excuse
me now as 1 am keeping pupil wait
ing"
And the young lady rode away with an
injured air and the remark that Malcolm
Eberhardt was awful stuck up and that
she never could bear him, while he ran
up to his room two steps at a time fig
uring that If he missed ten lessons out Of
thirty every week how long it would take
him to be millionaire. For he had
ambitions for something higher than the
lifa NJ tnaahnr HE dociro ron fO tho