Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-07-21

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he remembers the old college profess
or who always helped him out of his
| dllemmas and forthwith goes to him
for advice. The professor, who is an
indefatigable microbe hunter and has
| been for years trying to discover the
germ of love, thinks with glee that in
this unusually bad case is his chance.
! After much research he finds the love
germ and carries it carefully to his
laboratory. But Il sportive soph lets
1t loose among the 'co-eds,' with the
disastrous result that every one begins
promiscuously to fall in love with ev-
! cry one else OF course the heroine gets
inoculated and falls in love with the
hero
"And the professor himself becomes
enamored of the laundress," she put
in laughingly.
| Just SO! ] was working on his So
| liloquy prior to the advent of the love
lorn youth when you came in"
"And Of course began at the end, as
usualw
"Y-ycs But the rest will come 10
| me. Here's the last verse anyhow:
81 have found the germ of health,
| The germ OF melancholia and paresis,
| But my regulations lost
| If | can't at any cost,
| Describe the germ of love in my great
thesis.
| Flows thatf''
| Great
| She smiled encouragement with APP
| preciative eyes and lips, but the light
| died from her face as he swung back
| to the desk, waving the paper hilari-
ously above his head. She bit back
the bundle of mail beside him, turned
| away.
Don't 60" Royce was bending over
his papers and did not look up.
Wont it disturb you if | remain?'
mo; it will help me; it always does.
| think you are my Inspiration"
| The blood flashed to her face SO sud
denly that she was thankful he did
not look up and see it, She sank into u
| big leather chair before the open fire
| and took up Il magazine. Speed,
| Royce's fox terrier, got up from the
rug. stretched himself lazily and jump
ed upon her lap. The young man lift
ed his head and looked across at her
sideways
what Il picture you make" he said
| meditatiyely.
The girl gave an unconcerned shrug
| to hide the suffocatlng beating of her
| heart in her throat 1t was terrible
to her, the suggestion of domesticity
in their attitude, and to think it meant
nothing to him beyond the fact that in
the coy setting of the "den" she made
an artistic picture
Royce was deep in his work again.
scarcely conscious Of the fact, when
| she rose and left the room in answer
| to ring III the bell and the maids
| knock. He heard the soft pitpat OF
her feet as she ran upstairs few min
| utes later and then the clash of the
| front door
Having finished the professors So
liloquy he rose and strobe into the
drawing room just in time to see Lucy
being helped into a high dogcart by
| fair faced individual in immaculate
| light overcoat and dogskin gloves. The
horses paved the air when the diminu-
| tive tiger left their heads and sprang
into his place. Royce had glimpse
OF Lucy's bright face as ii was lifted
TO her companions. How entirely in
her element she looked! He turned
away from the window, his foot trip
ping in rug, which he kicked savage
~ back into place. "Confound those
things that are always catching in PEG
pies feet" Well. here was another day
wasted. That stuff he had written was
rot. He strobe back into his room and
tearing the sheets in two flung them
into the waste paper basket. Then he
threw himself wcarily into the chair
which the girl he called cousin. because
he had known her all his life. though
the tie between them was remote. had
so lately occupied
How pretty she had looked sitting
there Ia the lire ilSlI. What could She
ste J." iliHl empty headed numSkull
that she should care to 20 driving with
him. Was she, after all one Of the
girls to whom a well weighted pocket
book atoned for any mental lack?
He recalled the evening before when
after a hard days work he had wander
ed into the drawing room where Lucy
sat playing a sweet Elusive little mel
ody Of Chaninade's. Again the feel.
Ing Of supreme content in being thus
alone with her with no words between
them but the soft, tender chords. came
over him Suppose this tailor's block
OF man should carry her off to
home Of his own2 Suppose she should
be willing TO gof He got UP and paced
through the rooms his mind in whiri
OF fear
He met the Girl in the hall when she