Milford chronicle., 1904-07-29
Copyright, 1901, bv'r c. Mcclure

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germ of lose. thinks with glee that in
this unusually bad case is his chance.
After muei. research he finds the hove
germ and carries it carefully te his
AdbOratOry But a sportive sopk lets
it loose 1mepg the 'co-eds,' with the
disastrous result that every ore begins
pTOmiscuOasly to fail in love with ev-
eery one else. OF course the heroine gets
inoculated and falls in love wi-h the
hero"
'And the professor himself becomes
,enamored of the laundress," she put
in laughirgly.
Just SO I was working on his so
liloquy prior to the advent of the love
lorn youth when yOu came in
And df course began at the 'and, as
usualr'
Yves But the rest viii eeHne to
me. HeBsss the last verse anyhow:
''I have foand the germ Of health
THE germ ,sf nlelancholia and paresis,
But my populations lost
If can't at any cost.
Describe tn germ OF love In mt great
thesis
blows Enatf"
Great
She smiled encouragement with ap-
nreciative eyes and lips, but the light
died from taer face as he swung back
TO the desk, waving the paper bilari-
,0usly above has head. She biz back
a sigh betUeen her teeth and laying
the bundle '1f nail beside him turned
AWAY.
Don't ga Royce was bending over
NIs papers and did not look up
Mont ii disturb you if / reinains"
'.No; it viii help nae; it always dees.
think you We my inspiration
The blood flashed 10 her face 50 sud
denly that Sise was thankful he did
Hot look up and ,bfa it, She sank into q
big leather cbs.ir before The open fire
and took uP magazine. Speed
Rovue's fox terrier. got up from the
rig stretched lNmself lazily and jump
ed uD0u her lap Ihe young man lift
ed bis head and locked across At her
sideways.
What a pictuDe You make he said
meditatively.
The girl gave an mnconcerned shrug
to hide the suffoeazing beating of her
heart IN her throat 1t was terrible
to her. the suggestion Of domesticity
in their attitude, and 10 think it meant
nothing 10 him beyond the fact that in
the coy setting Of the den she made
an artistic picture
Royce was deep in sis work again.
scarcely conscious OF the fact, when
she. rose and left the room in answer
to a ring at the bell and the maids
knock He heard the soft pitpat Of
iAer, feet as she ran upstais,a n few min
mtcs later aud then the clash of the
front door.
Having finished the professors so
hloquy he rose and str0ds into the
drSwing room gust in time to see Lucy
being helped in1o a high dOEGart Ivy a
fai7 faced individual in iunMaculate
light 0vercoat and dogskin gloves The
horsss paved the air when the ailuinn-
tive Nger left their heads and sprang
into las place. Royce had glimpse
Of Lueys bright face as it was lifted
to her eompanion's How entiHcig in
her elee1ent she looked. He turned
away fran the window, his foot trip
ping in rug. which ne kicked savage
ly back igto place. "Confound those
ehings that are always scratching in peo-
ple's feetr' NNell. here was another day
wasted. That stuff he had written was
rot. He strode back into bis room and
tearing the sheets in two flung them
into she waste Daper basket Then be
threw himself wearily into the chair
which the girl he called cOuslR, because
he had known her all his lie. though
the tie 0etween them was remote, had
SO lately occupied.
How pretty she sad looked sitting
there in the fire light! What could she |
see in that empty headed numstuu /
that she should care to go driving with /
him? Was she after all, one Of the .
girls 10 whom a well weighted pocket |
book atoned for any mental lack?
He recalled the evening before when
nfter a hard days work he had wander
ed into the drawing room where Lucy |
sat playing a sweet. Elusive little mel
Ody of ChAminade'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
II man should carry her off TO
home Of his own? Suppose she should
be willing to go? He got up and paced
through the rooms. his mind in a whirl
IF fear.
He met the gill in the hall when she