La Junta tribune., 1907-05-25

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| The Pelham twin who wore I-tti.
I coats SMILED n superior fashion Oh the
| Pelham twin who wore pants
1 The proud possessor OF infnitesisnsl
I knickcrtoekers glxred back at ber OF
the ps.tticoa,s-
| Il shall have 10 tell mumxey." aid
: Miss rctticoats.
I III you do shall pinch you black
I and blue replied her brother. nearly
tess ring himself away from Douglas
RAYMOND. newly arrived assistant at
I Morris Manor school. who WAS awk.
war,ily trying tD fasten coat butt ,ns
for his reb.ilious pupil
Natalie has been waiting most an
hour. She says your naughtiness Will
4 CIV. her new money. maybe. and
I you'll be sorry when she's dead
Il won't give her anything OF the
sort. you ninn.r replied the Pelham in
pants as he jersed on his mittrn.
Z And / love Natalie much Letter than
you do. Anyway. l was only KEPT in
1 ten minutes. eh. Mr.. RaymondE~
/ Very graye.y Douglas Raymond drew
1 out his watch and glanced at it.
/ Twelve minutes. and you might
Z have gone Two minutes ago IL you had
not tied tie sleeves cf your coat to
/ sethcr Tell your nurse that the next
/ finn. you arc kept IN for being a
/ uauehi. 10Y she had best come IN
side and wait
( The Pelham twins trottci s;urI.ly
toward tie door, the boy iinglng over
( his shoulder;
Nnu.llc IS not our uurse. We don't
! have nurse any more. Shes our sls-
! ter Then. stopping stock still. he add
/ et: and there VIII not be any next
( tlme Cracky. won't Natalie lie ,icklel
when tell her you thought she was
Z our nUrse,''
/ Douglas Raymond sighed as the door
I closed on the twins. Then he crossed
7 the room aud stood looking down in
/ the street And FOR this he had taken
/ high college honors!
/ lie lad Jus, missed n small college
professorship - through lack OF iuhu.
cnce uud with his mother Dependent
! upou him he had not dared 10 refuse
| the liberal financial offer of the ma stcr
I of Morris Manor. a iiourishing private
school overlooking the Hudson. Even
/ that offer had not come until midwin
/ ter. after death had caused II vacancy
! on the Morris Manor siaff and when
Douglas had almost decided 10 give M
his college ambitions and dig into com
uieree
Morris Manor was boarding school
( for boys. with few day pupils drawn
! from the rich owners OF country homes
taercabci,ts. just across the tree llped
avenue was a fashionable schopt for
/ girls. Evilcntly from this school Ind
i como The small sister OF his rebel'lons
I pupil He leaned over the window
I lc,lgc t, gee whether they wcr2 Safely
I ON their hnmewnrl way. and suddeni,
his fingers cripped the rough stone
I coping.
The twins were dancing NJ the street.
( one on either side of tall sende,
I girl. clad IN ratty skating suit, with
/ scnrlct tam-o'-shantcr on her wei
polsrd head
'Naiallc"-- And be had not guessed
7 However he would know The c-accful
z walk. the splendidly poised head,
among thousand The trio di>an-
rcared around the corner and he hur.
ried hack TO his desk
"Wnlinm Reginald Pelham
There 1t stood on the -" class list.
/ Douglas had not had time TO hecone
\ familiar with his roll book. The wls.i
I looking littie Iaddie who said such as.
,onIshiuglr rrbelllous thinrs In sUeb n
precise way had bcen known To him
during that first school dny only as
Willie II he had only known most
certainly he would not have detained
the hoy and let her stand ont In the
cold. What IL she did have pneu,
| monia-
He tried to correct the copy looks.
1 brt his thoughts would wander.
1 WHY was she here: Why had chs
not carried ont her original intention
I she was not studying. what was the
Pelham family doing Mt their country
place in midwinter with the social
season In full swing in the city:
He might have known that Willie
was her brother. Her odd. dcmurc
way OF saying startling things had first
attracted his attention to her and final
/ iy nearly wrecked his last year in col
lccc. How could he work. then. with
the thought that love and the girl who
was all in the world to him Were alike
beyond his reach? There was his fu-
ture to carve. his mother TO support, a
few Of his fathers debts 10 pay, and
on the other side Natalie Pelham. the
Pelham wealth. the Pelham position.
She had been flirting with him. of
course, not willfully, but Just because
It came as naturally 10 her us eating
| and drinking She had never taken
him seriously. and nfter commences
ment day. when he had gone out west
to teach in n summer school and give
his mother little rest in n quiet sum-
mer resort. he had dropped out OF her