Connecticut western news., 1909-04-08

 son expected to arrive and was q tri1e ! the girl looked eagerly at them. When the last one had gone, with evident disappointment she touched her horse with the whip and drove hOmeward She had not gone far before she over took a young man who might be any i where between thirty and thirty-five plainly dressed in a pepper and salt l suit and felt hat
 "I beg your pardon" she said, rein ing in, did you come in on the train just passed?"
 "I did," raising his hat politely. l Did you see an elderly person of i st lo!Lrly appearance get offT'
 II Cont remember any such" "I suppose he didn't come" She was about to drive on when he said to hcr%
 Are you Miss Constable?"
 "M hy, yes" surprised.
 And were to meet MT. Manning president of Winward college?'
 "Yes. Whats become of him?" 1 'I represent him."
  i nation, but, not receiving 1t, said: Since you have come ill his place ! please get into the cart. I'll drive you to the house." ] Miss Constable was curious to hear an explanation as to why he had sent l this young man in his place, but she was well bred young girl and didn't like to ask questions. However. her curiosity got the better of her. f You're President Manning's son, fancy"
 "Mr. Manning isn't old enough to have son of my age" "Why. I thought college presidents were always old"
 That used to be the case. They hired some very respectable old min l ister for the position. Now they get a man to do the dirty work" ] What do you call the dirty work I"
 ''They define 1t building up the col | lege. It is really begging, borrowing and sometimes cutting very close on to stealing i'll order to get endow- ments, found scholarships and estab- i fish prizes. It's kind of one horse | DuSlneSS pOSlt1On.
 "President Manning isn't anything like that I'm sure. Father says he l has one of the finest minds he has ever known"
 "rity he can't exercise it in a higher i field"
 I'm astonished at you" She turned and looked him in the face with a se we're expression. You come here rep resenting the president of a splendid university and speak of him in the most cOntemptuous terms"
 DO you know what this visit that has been arranged on the part of MT. Manning is for"
 "No."
 ''The college corporation, always hungry for funds, told Manning to come up here and see if he couldn't get $10,COO out Of your father to make over an old dormitOry."
 Well, why didn't he come:"
 Ashamed of the work" 1 Nonsense! Such work is nothing to be ashamed of"
 "The meanest thing about the whole matter is the shuf1ing the work on to me"
 "YouT
 Do you think me too good for the work or the work too good for me?"
 "T-shouldn't think they would send so young"-
 "Ordinary"-
 q would rather take youe for the captain of the football team"
 "I was when l was in college"
 Are you taking a postgraduate course?"
 "No."
 "Tutor?
 "No."
 Professor"
 "Oh, no; you don't think they'd give a man of my caliber a professorship, do yOu?"
 q know. You're registrar or some thing like that"
 The gentleman laughed. It was very discomposing to Miss Constable. She felt that she might be making a mis- take. I'm not going to say another word" she said.
 "Well, let's talk of something else"
 "What?"
 Are you interested in archaeology"
 "Yes."
 "Well, then, since we have still a little time before reaching your home I'll tell you about some diggings we college chaps did in the fur west We uncovered the ruins of a building or combination of buildings that had been used by a prehistoric race centuries i ago"
 Was that when you were stu dent?" ''NO; 1 was a graduate"
 "Who led the expedition?"
 "Manning" 'There! I told you President Man ming was n scholar"
 q thought you said he only looked : like n scholar" "I didn't say only at all"
 She turned he horses head into n