Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-03

whats the wOrdT"
"Ferrated."
ut means ironed.''
'Ironed? Like clothes from the
washT'
mo. Iron in it.
ooh. Now 1 understand. Thanks"
Miss Ives relapsed into silence. Pres
emily she asked:
did you study any Greek at your
school?"
''Seme of us did,
IF you could go on in its study so as
to read the Greek poets you would find
them very rich, so I'm told"
Il don't need to read them in the
original, since our modern poets have
been drawing on them for centuries"
Miss Ives was astonished. What did
this common fellow know about po-
etry? Yet Burns was Il plowman, and
he wrote beautiful poetry. Perhaps
this man was one of that kind.
DO you write poetry?' she asked.
"Oh, dear, no. That's not in my line.
But l read it,
What do you mean by your line?
What is your liner
iniS just INV"
do you always run it,"
Not in winter. I'd have to turn it
into an ice boat if did
There was more silence, during
which the boa tman curved his craft
around the end of the lake. and start
ed back. Miss Ives had grown Il tritle
afraid of him. She couldn't make him
out
II suppose" she asked haltingly-"I
suppose you have favorite poet,
haven't you:"
"No; l don't know that l have"
"Longfellow is mine.''
'Hc had Il way of taking other peo-
pies productions and infusing into
them Il certain sweetness that was all
his own"
Miss Ives was as much startled as if
an owl had given a criticism on the
book of Job. For the rest of the trip
she shut herself up like steel trap.
When she reached the laading the
boatman stepped on to the boards and
held the launch's nose while Miss Ives
also made her exit She went up to
him and handed him half dollar,
ICCliIlS NCIy us IL SIG were VI
fering Il tip TO gentleman lie took
it, put it in his pocket and tied his
boat, while she walked demurely 10
her hotel
Miss Ives the next morning was sud
denly called back home and did not
get out of the city again during the
summer. Her curiosity had been ex-
cited, and she resolved to go again
the next season to the lake in order to
solve the riddle of the boatman When
July came. she did SO and the morning
after her arrival went down to the
landing TO hire the launch The launch
was there, but in the hands OF another
man.
What has become of the man who
ran this launch last year," she asked
I bought the boat of him: hope III
do as well as he did. He paid for it in
July and made $500 in August
why doesn't he run it this year?"
"Oh, he's a grad
"a what?"
THE corporation is to send him
abroad to study to be prof of the ro-
prof of the romances. What do
you mean by thatY'
Professor of the romance lam
guages."
Miss Ives caught her breath.
Has he gone yet?'
"No; he doesn't go till fall He'll be
here presently to give me little coach
ing on this motor. There he is now
a respectable looking young man in
to the dock Miss Ives envied frog
she saw plunge into the lake and dis
appear. The boatman of last year rec
ognized her. There was an amused
expression on his face. Miss Ives was
badly ratified.
1--WE been thinking of you ever since
last summer" she said, then paused
and blushed. 81 mean that I've been
how a boatman could criti-
else great poets"
HE can't; he only thinks he can.
Nobody can do that Large masses Of
readers are the only critics.
why didn't you tell me?'
"What-that I was what the country
men about here call one o. them stu
dent chaps that scratches for knowl-
edge in winter and money in sum-
mer?~
Miss Ives unintentional admission
that she had been thinking of him for
a year started what In youth needs but
little impulse. When the professor Of
the romance languages returned to take
his chair at the university he also took
upon himself vows which can only be
broken in those states having easy d.
vorce laws. AIRLINE PHILLIPS