The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-21
HIS GREAT DISCOVERY.
nv Cecily AIIen.


 Copyrighted 1907 by E. c. Parcells.)
 The Pelham twin who wore petti- coats smiled in superior fashion on the Pelham twin who wore pants. {, The proud possessor of infinitesimal glared back at her of the petticoats.
 T shall have to. teiI >Mumzey," said Miss Petticoats.
 If you do. shall pinch 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 rebeiiious 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"
 T won't give her anything of the sort. you ninn," replied the Pelham in pants, as he jerked on his mitten. "And I love Natalie much better than you do! Any way, I was only kept in an ten minutes, eh,s Mir. Raymond"
 Very gravely Douglas Raymond drew out his watch and glanced at it.
 Twelve minutesr~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 q naughty boy. she had best come inside and wait"
 toward the door, the boy f1inging over
 Natalie Is not our nurse. We don't have a nurse any more. She's. our sis- ter" Then stopping stockstiH, he add ed: And there will not be any next time. Cracky, won't Natalie4be 'tickled when I 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 small college professorship-throug lack of infiu- 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 huorishing private school overlooking the Hudson. Even that offer had not come until midwin- ter after death had caused vacancy on the Morris Manor staff, and when Douglas mad almost decided to give up 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-lin- ed avenue was fashionable school for girls. Evidently from this school had come the small sister of his rebellio4ls pupil. He leaned over the window ledge to see whether they were safely on their homeward way. and suddenly hds,ni his fingers sriwed tn" rough 't'ne
 The twins were dancing up the street 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 guess ed. However, he would know the graceful walk, the splendidly poised head, among thousand. The trio disappeared around the corner, and he hurried back to his desk.
 "WiIliam Reginald Pelham.
 There Is stood on the ID" class list. Douglas had not had time to become familiar with his roll book. The wise looking little laddie who said such as- tonishingly rebellious things in such 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 pneumo- nia-