The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-20

Hk ously, and in doing so we naturally looked M at each other; she writing at combination
 desk and table in little drawing room and I spreading my things, the dining table. There nothing between these two but arch partly filled with fretwork ara besque and in this arch stood the tall figure of Billy Blight and the checked gngham outlines of Margaret, our housekeeper-otr Mrs. Grundy.
 "He would come in Miss say what would" she apologized, with stern and one admiring eye on Billy. "I told him how the young ladies was particular engaged, but in he comes and says he only wants to ask a question:
 Then ask it, commanded Elizabeth. sWe're busy. Have only until tomorrow to finish this comparative philosophy thing. Ask it and trot!"
 "I have asked it." he broke out "Have you Euro pean Morals or have you not?'
 Well, to be sure, sir," cried Margaret Don't speak to him, Miss Elizabeth, dear "I1l take him to the kitchen. Come, MT, Billy. there's good young gentleman Come with Margaret A nice black cup of coffee" But Billy shook her off.
 Have you got 'em?" he demanded for the third time.
 Don't know" answered Elizabeth. '"what part of Europe for instance?"
 'The whole little shop, believe It's book. as you jolly we'll know, by chap called Lecky. One of the references for this very identical paper you're writing, and which ought to be writing too badgered them about it at the library that at last they told you had it and came around to borrow it''
 'Tm sorry Billy" said Elizabeth "but I've lent 1t to Miss Peterson. that graduate student whose place is two seats beyond yours at Education l. She lives some place about here I'll look her up in the Register Maybe she will let you have it'
 'But never her," Billy protested "I can't walk up to strange young lady and inquire about morals"
 Nonsense" interrupted. "You've seen her three times week when you didn't cut She's quiet little thing in spectacles. Now go before you're slain"
 Breakfast time the next morning brought Billy back to us. We were then at leisure to listen to his transports and he was generally we'll worth listening to- He was handsome, clever, wonder fully gifted young fellow The of famous father and the grandson of sensible old marinet who vowed that she would cut him off with a shilling unless he adopted profession. So here he was in a coeducatona college, preparing to fill the chair of Art in some great and still mythical university No one, not the dragon Margaret could resist him and Blaisdell, the head of the Art Department and particular Nero, accepted, with what grace he might the boys superior talent. And it cannot be pleasant for professor to know that he is far outclassed by of his students and to know that the student knows it. But this was only in the actual painting drawing. In all other subjects treated in our halls of learning, Billy was as he patheticaily described it. hopeless duffer
 On the morning that he dropped in, all unin vited. to breakfast with us he was so radiantly delighted with himself that Elizabeth and greeted him in chorus with:
 "So you've finished the paper, after alI.'
 "I forgot itr said Billy, as nearly crestfallen as he knew how to be- "I give you my word, I never thought of it since here yesterday afternoon found those morals, though" he cheered up to tell us, "and found Miss Peterson, too Why didn't you ever tell me-" and he turned reproachfulIy to Elizabeth, 'that she has perfectly beautiful eyes? s nd nd going to let do them"
 "Ah! Billy Billy" said T. "you've been doing if already, and you promised, you know how faithfully promised. to devote yourself exclusively your work"
 That's just what was doing," he replied triumph anly. "I call upon you both to witness that I went forth in search of European Morals so that might finish my paper philosophy. I've forgotten every word Of it now, but thinking it it promised to be corker. I won't stop to ask you young ladies what morals, Lecky's morals have to do with philosophy. We'll let them have that question for some night at the debating society To resume: went to the address you gave and consumed whole box of matches in reading the names on the bellplates It's 1at-house you know Not lordly apartment like this in which you fe- male sybarites loll away your days with elevator and Margaret. But a regular or garden variety fathouse where you press the button and / you never tell who does the rest. And there I found Fergusons name. You know Ferguson, that chap with whiskers who is nearly always late for Education when I'm there"
 "Hes generally late when you're there too" supplemented Hes always dashing about in breathless hurry,
 This IS my story and my stage remonstrated Billy Again I shall resume And under Fergusons name Miss Petersons was written. European, by jove' thinks I when I sees that combination and Southern European at that"
 "Now, Billy said I, threateningy, you'll get no more breakfast unless you behave"
 "Im resuming. I'm resuming," he pleaded 1T pressed that bell the door clicked open and walked np past beekstea and onions on the first foor past ,orned beef and cabbage on the second past Irish ,tew and coffee the third-all in the dark mind