Middletown transcript., 1905-11-11
THE PROFESSORS DAUGHTER
BY JAY PALMER

sick OF tutOrlnS-ne naCeu IL, ou
had tried it during former vaca
tons, because he determined b
book or by crook to work hl
way through college and the
study medicine it was his on
ambition, and it had been sutfic
iently strong thus far to over
cnsaaHXery obstacle.
tired out from hard stud,
and the examinations of his JUNO
year, he welcomed an opportun
ity to recuperate among th'
White Mountains and at the SAM
time to earn a little by accepting
a place as bellman at one of th'
large hotels.
At any rate it will be easiel
than coaching stupid youngsters
he thought, as lie alighted at the
great empty Star View House
theday before the season opened
The location was delightful; i,
commanded a magnificent view
of the whole Franconia range OF
mountains and the beautiful val
ley looking north to Mount Wash,
ington in the blue distance. Pot
ter drank in the bracing air with
pleasure and applied himself to
his new duties with a cheerful
alacrity. 1t promised to be a
warm summer, and the guests,
arriving at first singly or in small
groups, by July began to appear
in shoals and spread themselves
over the broad acres and through
the long corridors and wide
piazzas, until every spot was
alive with color and human in
terest.
Potter was just in the relaxed
mood to enjoy the study OF his
fellow beings which this chance
situation afforded him. The sud
den eruption of whole classes of
undergraduates few years be-
fore as hotel-waiters in that re-
gion had made the presence of
college men in any such capacity
a matter now of no surprise or
comment and the guests at a
New England summer resort are
always of the we'll bred class that
can respect the self-respecting,
so altogether his vacation prom
ised to be fairly profitable and
agreeable.
At first, when the mountain
wagons, with their sturdy four
in-hands and horns gayly footing,
rolled away bearing Il merry
party to the Profile or Flume, he
felt it momentarily irksome 10 be
tout of it ALL" but he soon learn
ed to regard such departures with
equanimity. The people he really
envied were the occasional ped
estrians who tramped from pure
love of it, for he was a hardy |
athlete and loved adventure
When one of these, always q
transient guest, stopped there
bringing a story of climb over
a mountain or through IL notch,
it would set the blood tingling in
his veins.
I must do something, he said
to himself, soon after his arrival,
to keep going, or l shall stagnate
surely.
But what to choose ? There
was golf, to be sure he had been
scratch on the college team, but
of course to play here was out of
the question. He might caddy-
the very thing! He wsuld get
and fun out of it, too.
The proprietor, knowing that an
intelligent caddy would be always
in demand, was willing-even
glad to allow him few hours
daily for such purpose so he
found himself speedily launched
On a new career.
The links were not ideal they
had been laid out but a short
time, and the grass was stubby
md the holes were too close-so
close, IN fact, fact that that good player play
found little use for brassy, be-
cause long drive and good ap- !
oroach were pretty sure to place s
him on the greens. The worst {
If it was that the many players g
nterfered with one another, and {
he dabblers were most exasper-
4ting-it required an exercise of
ylmost superhuman courtesy on
he part of the serious ones to
olerate them. However, they i
nade the best of it, for golf was 0
90 much "the thing" to be given L
p lightly. t
Among the guests at the Star a
Jew was a handsome, quiet o
oung fellow, Van Dyke by name
'hom Potter rather liked. The p
lncy appeared to he mntual for T