Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-19

probably one of Miss Porthman's
notes-some Shakespearean quotation
She works here almost every day"
Sudden Liking for Shakespeare
That was news to Sherwin He de-
cided to take up literature at once. Also
he decided to save the note and use it
as possible means of opening an ac-
quaintance with the beauty he had
seen. So he stuffed it in his pocket
That evening he looked up his Shakes
peare and turned to see what "Cymb
3-4-4" might be. Then he suddenly took
interest, for it read:
What is in thy mind
That makes thee stare thus?"
II wonder if she meant me?'' he said
as he studied it over, putting his pipe
and gradually a grin oVerspread his
countenance, and for the first time in
years he began to take an active inter-
est in Shakespeare, for he had a plan.
By and by he rubbed out "Cymb. 3-4-4"
and wrote on the slip, Temp. 3-1-64.
Then he grinned again, and put the
slip back in his pocket.
The next afternoon as Miss Porth-
man was sitting in the library she was
approached by Mr.. Sherwin who stop
ped, bowed and said Miss, you left
this slip on your desk yesterday" Then
without another effort to intrude, he
bowed again, handed her the slip and
walked out. The girl smiled slightly as
she took the slip, murmured Thanks, "
and, after watching the broad should
ers of the man for an instant, she
looked at the slip, Then her smile
faded, for she saw, instead of her own
notes, 1.-TWO Gentlemen of Verona, "a
95," and Temp, 3-1-64." She made a
n11irlr ri 70
and after running hastily through them,
read:
Why lady, love hath twenty pair of
eyes"
And
THE very instant that l saw you
I'ld my heart fly to your service"
Nerve" she said to herself-then she
smiled again and began on Shakes
peare. She was hunting for something
to excuse herself for the first advance.
She was angry at herself for, as she
afterward said, she had made the first
note without thought, except for the
aptnes of the quotation. and she had
not expected the man, even if he found
the note, to understand it, and, if he
understood, she did not think he would
look up the quotation. She was angry
with him and with herself. so after a
long search she wrote on a slip: 81
Henry ", 1850" and left it with the
girl at the desk to hand to the tall gem
tleman who had gone out a short time
tefore-in case he returned. Then she
went home and quarreled with her best
chum.
Grin Nearly spols Chances
The next day the girl at the desk
handed Sherwin the slip and was as
founded by the eagerness with which
he inquired for Henry ~ and more 50
by the speed with which he returned IT,
He had read:
'Pesterd with a popinjay." 4
So he went out and figuratively
kicked himself around Copley square
Then he came back and studied
Shakespeare some more and, as a re-
suit. the next day Miss Porthman
found a slip accidentally" marked:
Rich. III, 1-2, Ill.," and read;
Teach not thy lips such scorn for
they were made for kissing, lady, not
for such contempt"
The worst feature of it was that when
she looked up, she caught sherwin
grinning. That grin came near de-
Sherwin's chances for earthly
If 1t hadn't been for the
fact that he was an apt Shakespearean
student he probably would have been
a bachelor to this day. The next slip