Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-05-18

| for, though he was only 20, Gov
/ Prime, as a junior at Columbia, had
been ENORMOUSLY devoted TO the lit
| tie lady from the very first evening
he saw her. \ boy of frank, impulsive
nature, was Cow boy still in spite
OF the budding mustache. the 20 sum
ners ana the barely passed exam
that wound up the junior year and
entitled him TO sit with the seniors
when the great university opened its
doors in October. Studies he hated. but
tennis, polo, cricket, riding and dane
ing were things he loved and eXcelled
in. Much of his boyhood had been
spent at one of those healthy. hearty
English schools where all that would
cultivate physical and mental manhood
was assiduously practiced and all that
would initiate against them was as
vigorously "tabooed."
At the coming Of his twentieth birth
day that summer his father had hand
ed him his check of $5.O00-the paterual
expression Of satisfaction that his boy
had never smoked pipe, cigar or cigar
ctte-aud the same week Gov had
carried of the blue ribbon with the
racquet. and the second prize with the
single souls. 1t was during the "eN-
ans the first week I'm June. when
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noro5 to him "ard t.rt.i,..I No.
so cordially and of corr.o ,,e' .ai1 r.
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be snro to lotus know -or1 .1,o.liI
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bosteeecs tbouob nrcsc,ti,o ,toir
friends after our cbefrv Ar,erfc,.,, r.'.I,.
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attention and tho ,o,..r,. ,.r,.o,.o,7
almost au vo,nor said 80 ,.e~,,
Dlcased" lint failed IN 1ool.i =, or,tI,or-
vic IN manifest tI,.ir ,r,,.,r. cbo
couldn', 90 ip tho min Tbo t,+lorb.d
'pbonod for cab She wouIdn.t 81
there alone and NEGLECTED. She JeIib-
erateIv sioroled Mr.. Prime ..Tbo Io-
dies are ain busv" She said win
chormiroIv annealipp smile INF
know Won can tell me. have n dress
for dinner after oct homo and ,,,,et
be NJ One Hundred and Tenth street
at 1880. How lone will if take a car
rage To- drive me there? Oh. is that
your society hin? WHY. are Won still
in COLLEGE? Why. thought"
That cab was 25 minutes COMING
and when il came Mr.. Prime went with
it and her. whom he had not left an
instant from the moment OF her cues
ton. Moreover. he discovered she was
nervous about taking that carriape
drive all alone away UP TO One Hundred
and Tenth street. vet what other way
could Girl 90 in evening dress? He
left her at her door with a reluctantly
given permission 10 return in an hour
and escort her 10 the distant home of
her friends and entertainers. He drove
10 the Waldorf and had a LIGHT dinner
with = half mint Of Hook. deyoured her
with his ewes as they drove rapidlv
northvard. went 10 a Harlem tbeater
while she diped and forgot him. and
was nj the carriooo door when she
came forth 10 be driven home. Seven
hours or less chad done the business"
So far as Gouverneur Prime was con-
ccrned
II yostbe bov's first wild ipfatuation
as mad. unreasopjno absurd. vet in
torea oe ,voe over tbo+ If Arthur Pom
dennis for tho lovely Fotheringov Mar
raret. Garrison had never seen or known
the like Of IL She had fascinated others
for a time had l,irJled love nassion
and temnorarv devotion. but tbi.-tbis
was yyorsbin and II was something So |
sweet IN her iadcd senses, sometime so |
rirb and Simultaneous that She oave
herself nm for n dov or. two to the de-
1iobt Of stua,iro IL Here was y olori. |
ons voung otb1ete who's owes followed |
ber everv move and GESTURE who brn,, |
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