Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-08
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in good order and not without some
trace of amusement.
In 1902 Beryl Whitney was being
finished" at Miss Ely's school for
girls, then at Eighty-sixth street and
Riverside drive, New York City. A
California girl of much beauty and
dash, it was said she would inherit
about 100000. Now a girl who
may some day come into $5,000,000.
and whose indulgent parents have
homes in Boston, Chicago and Cali
fornfa, to say nothing of a magnifi-
cent hotel suite in New York, is apt
to be a bit self-willed and headstrong.
All School Rules Ignored.
So it is not remarkable that having
met Thomas Graydon, one of the
finest football players Harvard has
ever gloried in, blond giant of many
destinations, Miss Whitney should
have reciprocated his love and de-
termined to see him as often as her
heart dictated, school rules to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
Young Graydon spent much time in
New York, running down for week
ends and making the Hotel Imperial
his headquarters. And Miss Whitney,
not content with the sober calling Gus
toms permitted at Miss Ely's, when
sedate chaperon occupied the center
of the drawing-room, and young cou-
pies sat in demure duets about the
walls, made innumerabIe excuses for
leaving the school to meet Graydon.
One day, in company with Miss Made
line Walcott of Natick, Mass, and
Miss Elizabeth Joyce of Andover,
Mass, Miss Whitney went downtown
ostensibly to lay in supplies for
school frolic. In reality they Joined
some college men, including Mr.. Gray
don, at a popular tea room and over
stayed the hour of Indulgence. When
the truth reached the ears of the
Misses Ely they "rusticated" the trio
of offenders. This punishment meant
Punishment to a cottage at Sharon
Springs, Conn, where Miss Moxley,
teacher versed in the Ely customs.
chaperoned offenders and supervised
their rigid hours OF work doing pen
ance.
Naturally the trio OF girls found
this most monotonouS and determine ed
to find excitement of some sort. Max
ing friends with the butler, in whose
pantry the telephone was situated,
Miss Whitney managed to secure con-
nection with the Hotel Imperial in
New York city, where Mr.. Graydon
was waiting in the hope of seeing her
again. She described the unhappy
plight of the rebellious three and
urged him to come to Sharon Springs
and rescue them from boredom.
Say you are my brother she eau
toned, as she rang off.
Advent of the brother"
The blond giant responded prompt
ly, calling at the cottage and asking
not for Miss Whitney, but for Miss
Monkey. To her he expressed his
deep regret at the mad pranks of his
sister He had come especially to
reason with this Maynard youngest
daughter of the family
He was so earnest-and so big
that Miss Monkey was duly impressed
and actually invited him to remain
at the cottage during his stay. Then,
while a servant carried his luggage
to the rooms selected for this unex-
pected but nevertheless welcome
guest, Miss Whitney was summoned.
What the brother" said to the sister"
in Miss Monkeys presence helped on
the deception excellently, but what
happened behind the door of broth
er's" room, into which the two disap-
peared, the one reproving, the other
weeping behind her bit of cambria
and lace, only Cupid knows
That evening Miss Moxley chaper-
oned the three girls and the lone
brother" to a village entertainment.
In the half-light of the country thea
ter the two conspiratcrs forgot watch
full eyes, and Miss Monkey began to
see light When they reached the cot
tage and that astute lady saw brother
and sister, draw back into a comfort
| ing shadow, she spoke her mind:
You two young people are entirely
too loving for brother and sister.
What does this mean2''
Then did Miss Whitney utter her
| defiance, which has been handed
down in boarding-scnool annals as a
classic.
1T doesn't make any difference,
Miss Monkey, if he isn't my brother.
I might as well tell you that Mr..
Graydon and 1 are engaged, and /
should think an engaged girl might
be allowed to see the young man she
is going to marry, and 1 don't care
what Miss Ely thinks. Just as soon
as Tom is graduated and papa gives
his consent we intend to be married,
and you needn't speak rudely to Mr..
Graydon, because 1 invited him to
come myself and told him to say he
was my brother"