Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1907-03-28
His at
Discovery.
By Cecily Allen.
Copyright. loc!, by Z. {. PARCELS.

The Pelham twin who wore petit
coats smiled in superior fashion on the
Pelham twin who wore pants.
The proud possessor of infinitesimal
knickerbockeis glared back at her of
the petticoats.
II shall have to tell mumzey." said
Miss retticoats.
If you do | shall pinch you black
ana 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 naugbtiness 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 nlnn,' replied the Pelham in
pants as he jerked on his mtten.
And | love Natalie much better than
you do. Anyway, was only kept ia
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. Tel your nurse that the next
time you are kept in for being n
| naughty boy she had best come in
side and wait
The Pelham twins trotted Sturdily
| toward the door the boy ilinging over
| his shoulder:
Natalie is not our nurse. We don't
| have a 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 he ticSlei
when | tell her you thought she was
our nurset'
Douglas Raymond sighed as the door
closed Oh 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
professorshlp - through lack of lniu-
ence - and with his mother dependent
upon him he had not dared TO refuse
| the liberal financial offer of the master
| Of Morris Manor. a tlourishing private
school overlooking the Hudson Even
| that offer had not come until midwiD-
ter. after dcrth had caused vacancy
on the Morris Manor staff and when
| Douglas had almost decided to give up
his college ambitions and dig into com
merce.
| Morris Manor WAS boarding school
for boys. with n few day pupils drawn
| from the rich owners Of country homes
| thereabouts Just across the tree lined
avenue was a fashionable school for
| girls. Evidently from this school hal
come the small sister of his roteiiious
pupil. He leaned over the window
| ledge to see whether they were 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 n natty skating suit, with
n scarlet tam-o'- shanter on her well
poised head.
| Natalie And he had not guessed.
| However he would know the graceful
walk, the splendidly poised head, !.
among thousand The trio disap-
peared around the corner and he hur-
ried back to his desk
| civilian Reginald Pelham"
| There it stood on the sd" class list
Douglas had not had time to become
| familiar with his roll book The wise
looking little laddle who said such as
tonishingly rebelious things in such a
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 IL 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. II
she was not studying, what was the
| Pelham family doing ar their country
place in midwlnter, with the social
season in full swing in the city?
He might have known that Willie
was her brother, Her odd demure
way of saying startling things had first
attracted his attention 10 her and final
~ nearly wrecked his last year in col
lege. 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-
tnre TO carve. his mother to support,
few Of his fathers debts to pay, and
on the other side Natalie Pelham, the
Pelham wealth. the Pelham position.
She had been flirting with him, of
course, not willfully, bnt just because
1t came as naturally to her as eating
and drinking. She had never taken
him seriously, aud after commence
ment day, when he had gone out west
20 teach in summer school and give
Ills mother n little rest IN q quiet sum
n'ar resort he had dropped out of her
life just as II there had never been
teas In the frat room moonlight
walks on the campus football games
and promenades which they had en-
joyed in common. And here she was
again, just when he needed to hold
himself well in hand One thing he