Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1905-03-16

was a swift summer storm stealing
blackly up from the horizon. and the
sea moaned us it broke in sobs along
the shore. They do that kind of thing
all right. used TO think that went
with the sulnnler man. but 1t doesn't
hiacGire@or Clarence Blair said he
hadn't showed M since breakfast, and
he'd seen him making a bee line for the
glen. and he'd ,nid. What's yer hurry"
and the professor had said he hoped
lie could have one morning in peace to
study without that laundering crowd
of old maids liking after him.
We didn't believe MacGregor. He
looks like pale. new sand fly. and his
father and mother own all OF No Mans
Land. The professor never in all this
world used such words as hiking and
laundering, but MacGregor cid. There
fore | may say, in the same common
parlance, that the whole numbering
crowd OF old maids pitched IN and lam
basted MacGregor until his pretty
white linen suit was not fair to see and
his twinng curls were fun of sand
burs. Then he howled aud retractel.
and we all went up the glen after the
professor
The glen deepens and darkens as you
go in. aud the sides are rocky and pre-
cipitous, with much shrubbery and I'M
dergrowth and scraggly pine trees list
cd to wlndward And just as the first
streak of lightning quiz cred in the sky
we heard a faint shout for help
1t was the professor. He hung sus-
pended in air on the bare limb Of a
dead pine that jutted out from the rock
halfway up the bluff. like. Genius on
Pegasus, the widow said-on petrifed
Pegasus
Then Genevieve Perey. our college
product. said Pegasus couldn't be pet
rified He would have to be ossItied
And the widow began to cry and sat
down on log and said she didn't care
bit either way. ossltied or pctritied.
and Professor Nogel was such lovely
man and always paid his board like Il
gentleman, and she hated to see him
killed before her eyes. and she never
felt so much like fainting before in all
her life.
Geneyieve said fainting was counted
out. He was fine target for light
ming mp there. and. while it was none of
her business and she had no interest In
the professor as q lovely man or in the
continuance of his regular board pay
ing. still she thought rope might be a
good thing.
in mountainous countries" began
Agatha the artist, who has been Eu
ropized. II believe they tie a rope
around the waist of one person
ITS the shoulders" said Genevieve:
kind Of a slipknot."
The professor shouted for help again,
this time fainter still.
mo: the waist" said Agatha firmly.
And lower that person over the noun
tain side until he rescues the other
party
Lets lower MacGregor,' murmured
said her feet We're getting wet and she
didn't think 1t was right to joke in the
face of death. That braced us up, be-
cause the professor did look like it, so
while the fleeting moments sped Gene
We've and | sped leeter and found
some clotheslnes and couple Of husky
lads in sweaters from the peanut stand
and the boathouse, and we sped back to
the glen
Then the husky lads climbed the
bluff on the sandy side and did the
Alpine act with the clotheslines, assist
ed by several ropes from the boathouse,
and before our eyes the professor was
pulled back to life and liberty
He is resting now. 1t is dark and
still at the villa. No hops or mando- |
Inns tonight. The shock will bring him |
to, | think. from the botanical dream
and cause him to concentrate his Joy |
on some loving, sympathetic heart, and |
1t may be your PERD1TA