Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-21

brow, and she passed on, but not be.
ore he had sent his soul after hers, in
one imprisoned cry Dot"
Did you see the PRESIDENT"
NO. l wasn't looking for her yet; ]
thought she was to come last, with the
orator."
MISS Webster, the president of the
college. yes! l referred to the class
president, Miss Dorothy Knox"
That tall girl?"
mo the little one with molasses.
candy hair, who turned her face as she
passed. She is small but mighty"
"Molasses-candy hair!" In all the
west, he thought he had never heard
anything so vulgar as that! Why
couldn't people call things by theil
right names?
How is she mighty"
"Oh in a universal way! the most
popular girl in college! Can do every
thing! takes everybody by storm! all
predict for her a wonderful career"
You! really you, and not a ghost!'
The man, our friend in the morning
took his face from between his hands
and raised himself from the edge of
the bridge to meet this sudden ap-
partition, with bare head and shining
eyes, holding out her hands to him.
Il have searched the seas DER for
you, what is the matter? You look as
If you had seen the ghost"
L have, the ghost of a forlorn hope
mo hope that is a hope can ever be
forlorn."
The truth must be told. This mar
had been fighting a battle for four OF
the hardest hours of his life, and be-
lieved himself worsted, with the con
clusion that if ever a man was born
on this earth a fool, he was that man;
and the sooner he left this campus,
where he found himself in the position
OF a hippopotamus in a drawing-room
the better. For the first time, he felt
himself standing in slippery places;
but the young woman laughed merrily.
Il am so rejoiced to find you, my old
friend, still in the flesh"
Eyes, / am old Jack, still in the
flesh, and you are Miss"
II Am what you called me, and by
that sign I knew it was you. I am
Dot"
II beg your pardon! you are Miss
Dorothy Knox, the mighty president of
a most distinguished class, a bachelor
of arts, with your flowing robe, and
mortar-board tassel hanging on the
proper side, and a most remarkable
career before YOU"
She made him a mock courtesy,
Where did you learn so much? And
may | ask what have you been doing
with yourself all the morning."
Gas to the learning I have been to
school; and for the rest, skipped stones
on the placid pond!"
"And didn't you see me g%raduate?"
mo, I did not see you take your de-
gree"
"And you didn't hear the address?
1t was wonderful, 1t was about
Ruskin."
"Ruskin, who's he?"
GA man"
81 am glad to hear It. I hope he
knew enough to keep in his place"
"He knew enough to make his place,
which is better"
ooh, is it?'
"You know it is, for you have made
your own place"
"I?"
"Of course, you! Don't you suppose
I've heard about you, and your doings,
and your goings on. Don't you sup
pose I've swelled with pride remem-
bering that big and mighty you, car
ried little insignificant me, over mud
puddles to school, and"
ooh, say! did you remember that?"
His voice trembled.
could | ever forget it; and how you
waded into the big pond and pulled me
out, after I'd gone down the third
time? 1t always seemed to me as if
the black water covered you that day.
for you left, and l never heard one
word in Is years. 1t is you who for
got"
mo, Dot, l never forgot"
why did you never write to me?"
Il never learned how to write prop
"Oh!" she was doubling with laugh
ter.
"And | never felt sure of my capital
and | can't punctuate, to save
my life"
"Punctuate! 1t is a mercy you have
one resource left. You can skip
But tell me, how came you
here this day."
"You must know that I'm a sort of
will-o-the-wisp. I had been making
Investigations along the Alaskan
range and at Seattle l had an impor-
tant call east, SO here'I am"
.1And SO I had nothing whatever to
DO with it," She buried her face in a
punch OF American Beauties. IF
things hadn't come to me as they did,
might have had more strength to
meet it."
Things come to you as they did!
What things? To meet what?"
Eyes, things in. the way of disaster,
sorrow"
Disaster, sorrow to you?"
Everything. Father went first;
hen mother because her heart was
Only Nell was left"
Nell" He had forgotten Nell.
Where is Nell?"
Teaching a summer school in Penn
'ylvania. She would have been with
ne to-day, but we couldn't afford it."
Couldn't afford it! thought
You thought we were what we are
lot. All that was in the old. old life.