The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-10-26

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&so< OU certainty have the most
4 ~ curious friends, Agatha
4 L J do you include your
~o< self, Kate?'
Yes, miss. Another
lump, if you'll be so good, but don't
disturb the lemon; it's just right. You
make the most agreeable tea in COL
lese, by the way. 10 resume, you have
curious friends. For instance, there
was that gaunt grad from the Middle
West. with the sunken cheeks, the
voice of nor-easter, and friZzes. Now
who would suppose that person like
yourself-who shows generations of
culture in the very lift of your eyelid
and slope of your shoulder-would have
taken up with that same grad:"
"She was a girl who had never had
6 good time"
''Sha had u seepless eye" meditated
Kate.
she promised me to so to bed at 10
every night. She's doing it, too. She
wrote me So"
"And that wild little Florida fresh
man, with the picture hat and Mysteries
in chapel"
"It was only that once, Kate. and
Ruby doesn't have them now at ALL
But Of all your varied cabiiet,
Dutchy was the most extraordinary
Nobody but you ever calls ner
Dutchy now. Kate"
Il see her still as she was that first
day Of lectures. four years ago, so big
big rs to pompadour, side-con:bs,
bands, feet, belt-buckle, redo!ent with
perfume as any modest violet, and
wearing a pink satin waist. gold chain
and earrings! Do you remember how
she said already three times the first
day she was called upon to recite? Yet
Dutchy had good eyes even in those
days, 1 grant you-great, black, burning
things. that took in everything. Huh
ger and thirst after knowledge
Dutchy has always had that. Think
what she has grown to be in four
years! The most rega! young person
in college, the president of the Stu
dents Association, the buyer of rare
books and Holbein prints. and finally,
one who never forgets to say bean and
ware under all circumstances
college has done everything for
how, crio5 Apatha GLOWING
Agatha Day has done everything
for her. answered Kate. Il should
think it would frighten you. Dutchy's
devotion. Doesn't it ever?"
mo, of course not. never thought
Of it that way"
"And yet" said Kate. slowly, land
yet Dutchy doesn't in the least appre-
ciate either you or college,"
Helen Shellhammer doesn't appre-
ciate collegew Agatha's amazement
was profound. Kate, how strangely
you do talk! Helen worships college:
I never knew any girl who loved it so.
She says it has meant everything to
her; that she loves every stick and
stone of the place: that she would give
ANYTHING to have the chance of serving
the college in any way. She can hardly
speak of commencement and leaving
Nevertheless, Dutchy does not ap-
preciate either you or college. She is
taken with the show Of things-the
show of culture, the show Of scholar
ship, the show Of service, even. She
thinks that learning and study and
beautiful buildings and Greek casts
and the Students Association, too. are
college, and they're not. She thinks
that your books and your pictures and
your dresses and your music and your
travel are you, whereas what you real
iy are is''-here Kate, with one of her
sudden flashes of great tenderness,
stooped to the little figure seated by
her knee, and drew her close-"what
you really are is the sweetest. sweetest
girl I ever knew"
A moments silence in the twilight,
and then Agatha, troubled, for Kate
was so horribly prone to be right,
asked:
do you really think Helen has
ed-missed-what / most wanted
her to get?"
Kate, the truthful. answered. Il
should not trust her to choose in any
crisis the things that you and l count
as best. But perhaps I am wrong. so
don't worry. You do too much worry
ing over the Sood-for-nothinG. anyway.
Why is it. Agatha. that you've been 80
busy mothering people ever since you
came into college-ancient grads. fresh
men in arms. DUtchy. not to mention
that sullen and cynica! Kate Pratt
Higsius-why have YOU mothcr2d lis
aN:''
.scatha whispered, 1T vas mother
kate"