The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-08-13

one impassfoned cry dot.
Did you see the presf# emit"
No, | wasn't looking for her yes;
| thought she vas to come last, with the
orator
Misc Webster, the president Of the
college, yes! I referred to the class
president, Miss Dorothy Knox
THAT tall girl?''
No the litt.l one with niolssses-
| eands heir. v.1o turned her 9aee as she
rassed. She is small but mighty
3Iolasses- tair!" In all the
vzst, he thought 80 had nev9r heard
anyti1ing so vulgas as tratt Why
couldn Peep, call thing . their
right names.
How is she mighty!
"Oh in @ universal ray! the most
popular girl in collegg' Can do every
thing! takes everybody by storm OIL
pred;4 Sxr her wonde al Greer"
s'You! really you. and not a ghost. -
The man, our friend in the morning.
treE his fGce FROM between lis hands
and raised himself from tn edge Of
the bridge to mt-s this sldden a.
partition. tn bare head and shinil 6
eyes, holding out her hands to- him.
Il have searched the seas Ger II
you, what is the NATTER You lrD1 as
If you haG seen the ghoet"
Il have, the ghost of a forlorn hope. :"
No hope that is a hope caa ever be
forlorn."
The truth must be told This man
had been fighting battle or four Of
the hardest hours Of his life, and be
lieVed himself wdrsted, with the cCl8s
cIusion that if ever man was born
on this earth a foso}, he was that man;
and the sooner h left his campus,
where he founz himself in the position
OF hippopotamus in draWfng-room
the better. For the first tins he felt
himself standing in slippery places;
but the young woman laughed merrily.
Il am 50 rejoiced to find Wv, my old
friend. still in the flesh.
Yes, | am old Jack, still in the
flesh, and you are Miss-?'
Il am what you called me, and by
that sign knew it was you I am
Dot"
Il beg your pardon! you are Miss
Dorothy Knox, the mighty president CT
a most distinguished class, bachelor
Of arts, with your lowing zobe, and
mortar-board tassel hanging on the
proper side, and most remarkable
career before yol.
She made him a mocis courtesy,
Where did you learn Sc much? And
may I ask what have you been doing
with yourself all the morning."
sAs to the learning h4Ve BEN to
school, and for the rest, skipped zones
on the placid pond!'
And didn't you see me graduata?"
mo, I did not gee you take your s1e-
gree"
'tAna you didn't hear the address?
It was wonderful. It W. about
Ruskin.' %
"Ruskizl, who's he?''
"a man"
Il am glad to hear IT. I hope he
knew enough to ksep in his plAce.
He knew enougk to maize hi place,
which is Setter
tsOh, is its"
You know it is. Eor You have made
your own place"
etI?''
eofs course, you. Don't you suppose
I've heard about you, and your doings,
and your goings or Don't you sup
pose I've swelled with pride ren4em-
bering that big and mighty YOU, car
RED little Insignificant me, over Gaud-
Duddles to school, and
"Oh. say. did yea remember lhat?"
His voice trembled.
could I ever forget II: 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 II
the black water covered you thai day,
for you left, and 1 never heard one
word in Is years. It is you who for
got
mo. Dot, I never forgot"
why did you never write to fae9t'
II never learned how to write prop
erly.''
.oh!'' she was doubling with lauR&-
ter
And / never felt sure of my capital
letters, and / can't punctuate, to save
my life"
..Punctuate! It is mercy you have
one resource left. You can skip
stones! But tell me, how came you
here this day?'
You must know that I'm a sort OF
] he'd been making
Investigations along the Alaskan |
range and at Seattle had an i1npor-
tant call east, SO here I am. ?
And so I had nothing whatever 20
do with it," She buried her face in a |
bunch of American Beauties. IF |
things hadn't come to me as they did, |
I might have had more strength to |
meet it."
Things come to yeu as they did.
What things? TO meet what?'
Yes, things in TIL, way OF disaster, !!
sorrow. -
Disaster, sorrow to you 2''
Everything. Father went first; |
hen mother because heg heart was
broken. Only Nell was left
Nell" He had forgotteA Nell
Where is Nell?"
Teaching summer school in Penn
sylvania. She would have been with
me to-day. but We couldn't afford IT,"
Couldn't afford It! I thought
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