Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-07-08
A PLUCKY WOMAN.

warning note. And David Stainer.
turning from his writing table, kicked
aside the waste paper basket with
petulance Ill becoming a correspond
ing member of five continental insti.
tutes.
Here the opening of the study door
brought Mr. Stainer to his feet, at
once relieved and dismayed In place
of the youth he had expected to see
there stood In his doorway a young
woman, bright-eyed, delicate featured
and AS even the unframed mascu-
line eye could not fail to perceive
remarkably we'll dressed.
Your man told me to walk right
in" said a clear, rather high-pitched
voice. But beg your pardon-I
came to see Mr.. Stainer. I'd like to
apply for that secretaryship, please
the one advertised In Knowledge"
For a brother. perhaps?" Stalner
suggested.
mo; for myself"
But so much of the work here Is
unworthy of your powers Typewrit-
ing lecture notes and drudgery of that
kind. And write a shocking hand!"
catching weakly at straws after the
manner of drowning men.
"I'm tolerable typist," was the
serene rejoinder. 81 can bring my
own machine, If you like"
After this, what could Stainer do
but bow to the decree Of fate and
offer to show Miss Rayner the labora-
tory?
Miss Raynor descended from her
inspection with a satisfied air, which
caused Mrs Van Huyghens-whos sat
awaiting her In the carriage at the
door of st. Kits mansions-to OBJ.
serve sarcastically. 81 presume you
didn't find your impecunious genius
already suited with typewriter ?"
We'll, no. Men with trst-class sch.
ence degrees don't hurry to hire them
selves out for the wages of a second
class butler, even In this country"
And are you sure Mr.. Stainer
cant afford to hire"
quite sure, Prof. Hiram Taylor
krews all Mr.. Stainer's circumstances.
He has very little money of his own,
and he gave up practice as a surgeon
five years ago"
I'm order to devote his whole life to
his precious theory"
ITS a perfectly lovely theory"
"And the theorist? Is he perfectly
lovely, too"
He's big and kind and handsome
Now, don't laugh, Lucilla! You know
I'd do just the same If he were under
sized and peevish and cross-eyed."
II believe you, my ,ear. Still, I'm
glad Mr.. Stainer's no. cross-eyed; 1t
makes things pleasanter."
They'd be pleanant enough-but
for the other man"
What MANI"
"Mr Hensley-who shares the lab
oratory with Mr.. Stat ar, and hates
him. I think. He Loo like malig.
nant rabbit"
when do you begin work."
Next Monday. You needn't pity
me. I'm going to have beautiful
time"
From this time forth Stainer's cour.
tesy became less forbidding. He
began to talk to Louise not of his
work only but of the hopes connected
with it, and when these tagged and
grew faint he turned to his young as
sistant for sympathy.
Perhaps" he said, on one of these
occasions, II had better have stuck to
the hospital, after all. A surgeon has
at least his uses In the world"
"And when the Stainer rays have
made Of surgery an absolutely exact
science, those uses will be multiplied
hundredfold!" Louise retorted.
"We've almost got there, Mr.. Stalner
we have, indeed. If you weren't
weary this evening you'd see the win.
ming post right in front, as I do"
you're a good comrade," he said
huskily. "Thanks"-and went hastily
into his study.
Yes, she was an excellent comrade,
but she chose to doubt Hensley's
straightness. The next time she hint.
ed her doubts Stainer frowned, and
wished she would dismiss all such
uncomfortable notions from her
mind"
Nevertheless, from that day forth
Stainer abandoned his careless habit
of leaving notebooks "all over the
place, and selfregistering instru.
ments at work in his absence. He
even consented to keep his more i'm
portant papers in a cabinet with a
lock.
Louise's satisfaction in these con.
cessions was the greater that she per-
ceived them to displease Robert Hens.
ley. He grew every day more like the
malignant rabbit to which she had
once unkindly compared him; and
even Stainer was struck by his per.
sistent blackness of temper At
length this savage humor found vent
in words.
About to leave the laboratory one
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