Smyrna times., 1907-04-10
His at
Discovery.
By Cecily Allen.
Copyright, 1907. by E. c. PARCELS.

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The Pelham twin who wore petit
coats smiled in superior fashion on the
Pelham twin who wore pants.
The proud poSSeSsor of infinitesimal
knickerbockers glared back at her of
the petticoats.
Il shall have to tell mumzey," said
Miss Petticoats.
"If You do 1 shall piuch you black
and blue" replied her brother, nearly
tearing himself away from Douglas
Raymond, newly arrived assistant at
Morris Manor school, who was awk.
wardly trying to fasten coat buttons
for his rebellious pupil.
Natalie has been waiting most an
hour. She says your naughtiness will
give her new money, maybe, and
you'll be sorry when she's dead"
Il won't give her anything of the
sort, you ninn," replied the Pelham in
pants as he jerked on his mitten.
And love Natalie much better than
you do! Anyway, was only kept in
ten minutes, eh, Mr.. Raymond?"
Very gravely Douglas Raymond drew
out his watch and glanced at it.
Twelve minutes, and you might
have gone two minutes ago if you had
not tied the sleeves of your coat to-
gether. Tell your nurse that the next
time you are kept in for being a
naughty boy she had best come in
side and watt
Tho DaIboro
toward the door, the boy flinging over
his shoulder:
Natalie is not our nurse. We don't
have nurse any more. She's our sis
ter" Then, stopping stock still, he add.
ed:' "And there will not be any next
time. Cracky, won't Natalie be tickled
when 1 tell her you thought she was
our nurse!'
Douglas Raymond sighed as the door
closed on the twins. Then he crossed
the room and stood looking down in
the street. And for this he had taken
high college honors!
He had just missed a small college
professorship = through lack OF inf1u
ence - and with his mother dependent
|
| the liberal financial offer of the master
of Morris Manor, flourishing private
school overlooking the Hudson. Even
that offer had not come until midwin
ter, after death had caused a vacancy
| on the Morris Manor staff and when
| Douglas had almost decided to give uL
his college ambitions and dig into com
merce.
Morris Manor was a boarding school
| for boys, with a few day pupils drawn
from the rich owners of country homes
| thereabouts. Just across the tree lined
! avenue was a fashionable school fol
| girls. Evidently from this school had
come the small sister Of his rebellous
! pupil. He leaned over the window
ledge to see whether they We're safely
on their homeward way, and suddenly
his fingers gripped the rough stone
coping.
The twins were dancing up the street,
one on either side of a tall. slender
girl, clad in Il natty skating suit, with
scarlet tam-o' -shanter on her well
poised head
"Natalic''-- And he bad not guessed
However. lie would know the graceful
walk, tie snlendidly poised head
among thousand. The trio disap-
peared around the corner, and he hur-
ried back to his desk.
"Willam Reginald Pelham
There II stood or the I'D" class list
Douglas had not had time to become
familiar with his roll~book. The wise
looking little laddie who said such as
tonishirgly rebellious things in such q
precise way had been known to him
during that first school day only as
Willie" If he had only known, most
certainly he would not have detained
the boy and let her stand out in the
cold. What if she did have pneu
monia-
He tried to correct the copy books
but his thoughts would wander.
Why was she here? Why had she
not carried out her original intention
Of going abroad to study art? And, Il
she was not studying, what was the
Pelham family doing at their country
place in midwinter, with the socia
season in full swing in the city?
He might have known that Willie
was her brother. Her odd, demur'
way of saying startling things had frs
attracted his attention to her and final
ly nearly wrecked his last year in col
lege. How could he work, then, will
the thought that love and the girl wht
was all in the world to him were alik
beyond his reach? There was his flu
ture to carve, his mother to support,
few of his fathers debts to pay, ant
on the other side Natalie Pelham, tn
Pelham wealth, the Pelham position
She had been flirting with him, o
course, not willfully, but just becaus
8 it came as naturally to her as eatin
. and drinking. She had never take
him seriously, and after commence
ment day, when he had gone out ives
20 teach in a summer school and agiy
his mother a little rest in a quiet sun
mer resort, he had dropped out of he
life Just as IL there had never bee
teas in the frat room, moonligf
/. walks On tha camnus football game