The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-06-07

> 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 infnitesima
knickerbockers glared back at her Of
the petticoats.
Il shall have to tell mumzey," sale
Miss Petticoats.
IF you do l shall pinch you blacl
and blue" replied her brother, nearly
tearing himself away from Dougla:
Raymond, newly arrived assistant a
Morris Manor school, who was awk
ward!y trying to fasten coat button:
for his rebellious pupil.
Natalie has been waiting most al
hour. She says your naughtiness will
give her new money, maybe, an(
you'll be sorry when she's dead"
Il won't give her anything of thu
sort, you ninn," replied the Pelham IL
pants as he jerked on his mitten
And love Natalie much better thai
you do! Anyway, 1 was only kept il
ten minutes, eh, Mr.. Raymond?"
Very gravely Douglas Raymond drew
out his watch and glanced at it.
Twelve minutes, and you nigh
have gone two minutes ago if you hat
not tied the sleeves of your coat to
gether. Tell your nurse that the mex
time you are kept in for being {
naughty boy she had best come in
side and wait"
The Pelham twins trotted sturdily
toward the door, the boy fiinging ovel
his shoulder:
Natalie is not our nurse. We dom
have nurse any more. She's our sis
ter" Then, stopping stock still, he add
ed: "And there will not be any mex
time. Cracky, won't Natalie be tickleC
when 1 tell her you thought she wa:
our nurSe!'
Douglas Raymond sighed as the doc
closed on the twins. Then he crossed
the room and stood looking down il
the street. And for this he had take1
high college honors!
He had just missed q small colleg,
professorship through lack Of influ
ence - and with his mother dependen
upon him he had not dared to refuse
the liberal financial offer of the maste
Of Morris Manor, a flourishing private
school overlooking the Hudson. Ever
that offer had not come until midwin
ter, after death had caused vacancy
on the Morris Manor staff and wheI
Douglas had almost decided to give vi
his college ambitions and dig into com
MERGE
Morris Manor was boarding schoo
for boys, with few day pupils drawn
from the rich owners of country home!
Whereabouts. Just across the tree LINED
avenue was a fashionable school TO
girls. Evidently from this school hat
come the small sister Of his rebellion:
pupil He leaned over the window
ledge to sec 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 q tall, slender
girl, clad in natty skating suit, witt
q scarlet tam-o'-shanter on her vel
poised head.
Natalie And he had not guessed
However, he would know the graceful
walk, the splendidly poised head
among a thousand. The trio disap
peared around the corner, and he hur
ried back to his desk.
civilian Reginald Pelham"
There it stood on the I'D" class list
Douglas had not had time to become
familiar with his roll book. The wist
looking little laddie who said such as
tonishingly rebellious things in such
precise way had been known to hin
during that first school day only as
willie" If he had only known, mos
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, II
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, demu! <
way Of saying startling things had frs
attracted his attention to her and final
" nearly wrecked his last year in col
lece. How could he work, then, will
the thought that love and the girl who
was all In the world to him were alike
beyond his reach? There was his flu
ture to carve, his mother to support, {
few of his fathers debts to pay, anC
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 to her as eating
and drinking She had never takc1
him seriously, and after commence
ment day, when he had gone out ives
to teach in summer school and give
his mother q little rest in quiet sum
mer resort, he had dropped out of hel
life Just as If there had never beer
teas In the frat" room, moonlight
walks on the campus, football game:
and promenades which they had en-
joyed In common. And here she wa'
again, just when he needed to hole
himself we'll in hand. One thing h'
must do-avoid her disturbing pres
ence, her magnetic charm, If he pos
sibly could.
Thereafter, In justice to the other pu
pills, he explained to himself, he show
ed no partially to the Pelham twin
In fact, that youth, if he had not bcel
so perfectly cognizant Of his owl
mischievous wrongdoing, might have
complained of discrimination. But 81
cry afternoon Raymond stood at tn
window and watched the slender fiG
ure with Its two small charges hurr
through the crisp winter air. Sh
must have changed, he argued to hin
self. Certainly she had settled dow
for she could not he doing the oper;
teas and receptions and call for thos
children every afternoon.
And then came the day Of the bill;
card. Raymond watched it shut dow
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