The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-08-09

offered by a relative to the tutors daugh-
ter, and while he prOfessed to he con-
tented to remain a bachelor, he had
views on the mercenary nature Of the
feminine heart which he used to express
in ,Scandalous language at bump suppers.
must be ,donc,' and looked to Cox as if
hoping that he would suggest the form
that ''something' should take.
"Can't somebody make the girl take
Five on again? suggested Seven, who
was getting, quite brilliant OH the
nation had aroused.
You could get away and so and see
her. said the president turning to Cox.
"A waterman's boy can steer US tomor-
row.
MY dear SIR said Cox in a tone of
congratulations: but the president was a
familiar friend Of vast personal strength;
he lifted Cox in his arms and took him
to another part of the room, where they
talked earnestly. At the end of their
conversation Cox was heard to say that
he did not like the job. but he would
have few words with Five to see how
swered that as long as c Cambrid dee@ won "a
the race, it could not possibly matter
who was inconvenienced afterward. He
was young man whose soul was in his
work. and he believed in his mission.
Ten minutes later Cox returned to the
room, and, addressing his remark to the
ing to town tomorrow; Of course no one
will let Five know that my going has
anything to do with him. ri make it ali
right if l can. 1 wouldn't do as much
for any other man. He walked out
of the room with an air of determination
that made him look two stone heavier
than seven.
Bow. who had gone upstairs. as the
!ightest- footed member of the crew, and
had only returned just before Cox. was
then questioned as to what had taken
place in Five's room.
Il could not hear it all.' he said, ''bnt
Cox tried to talk to him about love being
an rot and how he would soon get over
It, and Five got rusty, and said Cox
knew no more about love than the senior
proctor. and did not like it because when
he tried to kiss that girl of his he A.
ways had to stand on a chair, and Of
course that tired him. Cox was very
wroth; he banged out of the room 50
sharp that he nearly came on top of me- -
So. apparently, Cox was exercising
christian forgi veness when he said that
he would try to make things smooth for
Five in his love affair.
The next day Cox went to London.
VI aim udll UOtllc VI CudlupdSIle DIT Il6
club for luncheon, cut an obituary no.
tice with his penknife from back num-
Der of the Times, and put it in his cigar
cite case. Then he hailed hanson and
drove to an address in kensington writ
ten out in the stalwart handwriting of
Seven Of the Cambridge eight.
us Miss Angelina Delaney at home?''
he asked. The parlormaid said that Mrs.
Delaney was out. but that Miss Delaney
! was at home. and he smiled as Roman
general must have smiled when the
auxur informed him that the omens were
favorable.
When the Cox of the Cambridge eight
found himself confronted in a diminutive
drawing room by young lady a head
and shoulders taller than himself. with
small waist, large dark eyes and hair
her with admiration as connoisseur in
such matters, and decided to go straight
to the point. 1t would he impossible to
repeat all that he said. lie was a men,
Der of the Cambridge 4. D. c., and his
familiarity with the works of popular
English dramatists supplied him with
Which he would have played lovers parts
had not the club stage manager con-
sistently declined to assign them to him
in either sex.
At the end of a quarter of an hour he
had made perceptible though hardly suf-
ficient progress. Miss Delaney reiterated
her high regard for Mr.. Smith THAT was
Five's nance. as she coldly called him,
but refused to admit any return of her
former affection, however highly his
praises might be sung. Cox rose and
paced the drawing room. producing his
cigarette case as he did so. Probably she
thought he was going to soothe himself
with tobacco, after the vivid pictures he
had drawn OF Five's suicidal condition,
caused by her fickleness, for she held out
matchbox. He waved it away. He
was playing trumps, rather with the air
of man who is not quite sure whether
his particular card is the thirteenth Of
its suit OF not.
1T seems pity, too,' he said in tone
of resignation. lust as his uncle's dead,
and it's all right about money"
II did not know that he had an uncle,
but Of course money makes no differ
ence, said Miss Delaney. +
OF course not said Cox, producing a
newspaper cutting from his cigarette
case. You did not notice this in the
paper; that's his uncle, who, as you see,
Now, the newspaper cutting produced
referred beyond question to the death Of