The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-01

setter sat painting IN the noS4sil ssttL y
sun. while Thomas Jefferson, the
house cat, was sleeping corntortab5iS
and soundly by his side Betty Car
!. ter, a young lady of 20 and mistress
OF all she surveyed. leaned back II
her much-cushioned Madeira chair
and watched from the broad $Yeran-
| da a lonely detected horseman coming
tup the avenue.
..Billy! Oh, 4Billy!' called Betty
edo come out here and do your study.
ing. for that terrible Professor Carl
ton is coming. and 4 simply wont 5'a.
again lie left alone With him NOM
run, Billy. that's a dear good fello Wv
Dog gone it, Sis - said boyish
voice from the hall, wouldn pc
worried with such long=coat.taHed
prissy trash as that; no, not. even II
! he were the President, much less the
professor of a ST. Andrews brother 2H
ailt, all such stuff as that. Now, Why
Don't you say damn raise the%aesVli
generally, and to such an extent that
| he will abandon you as hopeless 81
Then in witheringly sarcastic tones
he continued :;&"But, shucks! the; S
| the way with you girls J GU don't ION
care whether a mans coat taals are arc
long or short, his mind broad or mar
row as long as he wears bfeeches:
FIirt. firt, hirt-you do that as in-
consciously as you sleep; and the .il
when the consequences are disagree
able you expect me to always De on;
| tap to help you out
"Flirt? Why,Eof course said Betty
that's most necessary tngredlen. I;
ana YOU wouldn't have me anything
else, L know Then. turning, she
said. patheticalIy, "But you will stand
by me this time, anyway, won't you,
I old boy?==sAnd aftersteas promise 70
help you with your Cicero. '
BY this time the professor vas
within speaking distance, SO 35Betty
1efsurely went down the broad stone
steps and said in hos itable tones.
| "Now, this lis a pleasure, my dear
professor, and you are just IN time
for tea. I am expecting the Pages IN
i a few nom ents, SO We can have q jon
| ly little time of it under the trees; TOT
i=it,s cooler out there, think NOW.
iBilly tell Dingo to take Professors
horse, and then you come straigh:
hack here to me, for''--with wink
E..you have been Studying too hard re- e,
Gently, and u simply viii not have
your health sacrificed to Latin, Greek
and mathematics. Now, hurry back
dear. 1919
81 81 had hoped we might have beer
alone at least. a few minutes, sara
Professor Carlton, casting a reproayccEE-r
full glance at the sacrificed abut!Sst%
the same time obedientS Billy en-
with effeminate pathos he continues,
81 have ridden 20 miles to ask you e
reconsider my proposal.
ooh, there come the Pages!'s crlec
Rettv in a voice full of ill-disguisesi
relief Then, realizing that h '7r . SET
evident gratitude amounted to little
less than rudeness, she smiled IN a
,way that would have corrupted an
archbishop, and said, sweetly what l!l
a pity they came so soon, because offs tIl
erwise we might have talked nnatters
over. and you and your eloquence 5ase
50 convincing Z. 5
This subtle fIattery had the effect
| Of making the professor rub the PAINS PAM
of his hands With dignifed 3satls1tac-
= .
ton and as the neighbors drove Up
remarked, ..Then my little one. may
again try to convince you OF Of. ray ray.
love?
"Oh. yes; but not this evening, an ant =!
nlease don't again look at me IN that
tender way, because our fr rtslltls-
might guess your secret. and they
are. as you know terrible leases. 'ss
Awell, Betty said Anne Page age
sliding gracefully from her horse,
..you may just as well ask me to re-.
main week, for not another mile DO
4 ride until It turns cooler. And how
is the professor?" said she, extending
to him a friendly little hand sup
nose rather tired, If you have peeri
I trying to talk Betty into common
sense ways. You may take my word
for it, she is beyond redemption .3$
..I can hardly agree with you my
dear Miss Page, for today she has has
encoura ged me. to billeye that on one
i'm portant subject, at least, she r =
more in my way of thinking
An annihilating glance from Betty e';
as she again went down the steps lss5 IS,
welcome another carriage load OF 81
tneighbors who were just drlv s1i
lie.