The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-19
THE EVENING STORY
His Great Discovery.
CIV Cecily AIlen.)

| (By Cec1ly AlleH.1
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 or
| the Detticoats.
| Il shall have to tell Mumzey, salo
Hiss Petricoats.
"If you do, 1 shall pinch you black
and blue" replied her brother. nearly
tearing himself away from Douglas
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 naught1ness VIII
give her new money. maybe, and you'll
| be sorry when she's dead.
81 won't give her anything OF the
| sort, you ninn," replied the Pelham
and 1 love Natalie much better than
you dol Any way, I was only kept In
an ten minutes. Ell. Mr.. Raymond"
Very gravely Douglas Raymond
drew out his watch and glanced az II.
Twelve minutes-and you might
have zone two minutes ago II you
had not tied the sleeves of your coat
together. Tell your nurse that the
next time you are kept in for being a
naughty boy she had best come inside
The Pelham twins trotted .sturdily
toward the door, the boy finging over
his shoulder: W. ao,,+
have a nurse any more. She's our sis
ter" Then stopping stockstin ne
added: -'And there will not be any
next time. Cracky, won't Natahe pc
tickled when / tell her you thougne
she was our nurse"
Douglas Raymond sighed as the
door closed on the twins. Tnen ne
crossed the room and stood looking
dow. IN the street. And for this he
had taken high college honors.
He had just missed small college
ACKNOWLEDGMENT lack of influence
and with his mother dependent upon
him, he had not dared to refuse the
liberal financial offer of the master OF
Morris Manor, a fourishing private
school overlooking the Hudson; Even
winter after death had caused va,
cancy on the Morris Manor staff, and
when Douglas had almost decided 10 |
give up his college ambitions ana ols
Morris Manor was 1a/boarding school
for boys with a few day pupils Drawn
from the rich owners or country homes |
Whereabouts Just across the tree
lined avenue was a fashionable school
for girls Evidently from this school
had come the small sister of his repel-
lious pupil. He leaned over the win
dow ledge to see whether they were
safely on their homeward way, and sud
denly his fingers gripped the rough
stone coping.
one on either side of a tall slender girl.
clad in a natty skating suit with a
scarlet Tam O'Shanter on her we'll
poised head.
Natalie And he had not guessed.
However, he would know the graceful
walk, the splendidly poised head, among
a thousand. The trio disappeared
around the corner, and he hurried back
William Reginald Pelham"
There it stood on the d. class list.
familiar with his roll book. The wise
looking little laddie who said such as
rebellious things in such a
precise way had been known to him
willie If he had only known-most
he would not have detained the
BOY and let Her stand out in the cold.
What if she did have pneumonia
He tried to correct the copy books.
put his thoughts would wander.
Why was she here? Why had she
lot carried out her original Intention OF
going abroad to study art? And if she
was not studying, what was the Pei
lam family doing at their country place
n midwinter, with the social season In
,ull swing in the city?
He might have known that Willie
vas her brother. Her odd, demure
way of saying startling things had first
his attention to her, and nm
lily nearly wrecked his last year in
College How could he work, then,
With the thought that love, and the
.irl who was all the world to him were
like beyond his reach. There was his {
uture to carve-his mother to sup
,ort, few Of his fathers debts to pay
and on the other side, Natalie Pei
Lam, the Pelham wealth, the Pelham
osition She had been flirting with
i'm of course, not wilfully, but just
ecause it came as naturally to her as
ating and drinking. She had never G
AIKEN him seriously, and, after COM
lencement day. when he had gone z
ut west to teach in summer school,
nd give his mother a little rest in a
uiet summer resort, he had dropped "
ut of her life, just as If there had
ever been teas in the frat" room, 1,
Moonlight walks on the campus, foot
all games and promenades which C
ney had enjoyed in common. And v
ere she was again, just when he
eeded to hold himself well in hand. a
me thing he must do-avoid her dis =
1rbing presence, her magnetic charm,
he possibly could. I.
Thereafter, in justice to the other
upils, he explained to himself, he
1owed no partially to the Pelham
vim In fact, that youth, If he had
OF been SO perfectly cognizant OF his
wn mischievous wrongdoing, might
ave complained of discrimination.
ut every afternoon Raymond stood r.
t the window and watched the slen-
err figure with its two small charges
urry through the crisp winter air.
he must nave changed, ne dTSuSQ
, himself Certainly she had settled G
own, for she could not be doing the
pera, teas and receptions, and call for 81
lose children every afternoon.
And then came the day of the bIiz- II
lrd. Raymond watched it shut down .
4 Morris Manor and could hardly :
eep away from the window. Was she
,ming for those children on foot? BY y
lie way. 1t was odd that she never II
lme with a sleigh or carriagei Other
1ildren were claimed , by fur-clad is
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