The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-28
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Real Commencement
f.Ieanne o. Loi2eanxl

EfoLs remember she was pretty girl
because he thought of her as a fount
Of learning, consulted her like an en-
Encyclopedia for bare facts connected
vita a Thesis concerning itself with /
botany, biology and the beginnings OF
| lie. II was important, The girl had
borne his blindness sincef neeembera
when she had begun her &vofK. And
now ii was May, and siHll he saw, |,
vaguely at that, only the TbFal ian in
her.
One gloomy morning he was wait.
llls when she came, barely on time,
TO open the doors. Then he walked I
straight to the desk, waited until she
removed her hat and asked for GER
Tain book He always did that She
walked down book aisle and he fol-
lowed. Her cheeks were fresh from
1.-the spring breeze; her step was light
| with youth. and health; her eyes glow
led with beauty, and her dark hair curl
ed lovingly about her little ears. He
had time 10 see these things while she
took down the volume, but his heart
xas with the beginnings of life. His
lshesis must be finished for commence.
Rent Therefore his living had be-
come mere matter Of reading all day
save FOR three hurried meals, and writ |
nls all night, save for the five or six
grudging hours he gave to sleep.
/ Now he took the tome from her,
made an absent little bow of thanks,
and went to his favorte corner 10
s,udy8 She lei him 90 without pick
ing from his sleeve long thread, as
she wished to do. She would alsod
rave enjoyed sewing button on slMsI
lunbrushed coat, and-sweeping back
his heavy, unkempt, fair hair from
forehead white and unlined save for
/ lie scholarly scowl between the .brows'I
AZ he settled himself she took her
/ seat behind the desk, and noted stoop
lin his broad shoulders, shoulders
| which, like the mop of hair, belonged
! o the uneXploited halfback in him.
4 he gill sighed He was getting on
ier nerves, and she determinedly
turned her mind to other matters N
AT the same time, 1t is provoking
for the best looking man in town to
W seemingly blind. 1t is especially
provoking to very pretty and adj
| mired girl. II is worse when she is OF
IL mulhcriy nature, and sees him go
about half-cared for, and unconscious
of anything hut an idea. She yearn-
ed to bring him back to his senses.
Had he known whether his breakfast
Nas sufficient? Did he know he need
len spring suit? Did he know the
i Wild crab trees were blossonling Oh
I a., ~ lIt- ~ in, ua1
lheyond the ,own, spring beauties and
yolets smiled and wated? OF course
| tot. He was searching blindly IN
ioofs for the beginnings OF life. or
| some such unsatisfyng quest Just
| lhefore he went home at nan he lift
d his eyes and met her gaze A burn
np blush deyoured her. He saw the
blus'i and wondered, but did not colr
meet itwitil himself. ~
He came back in the afternoon. and
lshe had 70 ring the bell twice at clos
ing time to GET him ont OF his dream
4 work Everybody else had gone
long ago into the sweet sunshine.
The scholar shut his book, and, hast
euing TO the door where she stood
waiting with her hat on to close up,
had the grace to murmur an apology
+ VIC also closed the door for her and
walked beside her down the corridor
and out of doois but at the first cor
ner he lifted his hat and left he +. She
oowed angrily that she would not
think Of him again--he-well not
/ boorish--but he might have gone lit
i tie further with her!
The next morning he came in just
after she lad opened the library and
while she was still arranging in al
little vase the spring beauties she had
found on the hill the evening before.
She was naughty this morning and
l'eigned at first not to see him. He
leaned on the desk and put his face
ldown to her flowers most lovingly
While the sweetest smile in the world
curved his lips.
How fresh!" he hrea he'd. 1t was
hts first unnecessary remark 10 her.
Then he asked her for another book.
She got II for him stiffy, and without
word She would do nothing for
lnim save what her official position, re.
quired- which did not include looking
at him where he sat in his corner,
lis long fingers tugging at the rough
blonde hair, his scowllng gaze bentl
On the page before him. He WINGED in
an ANNOYED manner al the sun, which
| Lad crept round and laid glaring
| finger upon his book, but he was not
aware that lowering the shade was the
thing TO be done. The librarian saw,
and after watching him first in amuse
ment, then in .yexation, she tiltoed
flom the desk and gave vicious. lii. /
Tie jerk to the lbng string gf fhe
.hade. This, she argued to herself,
vas her official duty The perk
brought the shade loose from the roi-
Ter, crashing and c'ackling down up
IN her She gave little cry
The scholar woke up, stared, left
his book and went to her rescue. She
was covered with dust and little
scratch on her hand showed red glob
uie of blood He took out big hand
kerchief and busted her Off hoping
she was not hurt, taking her hand as
he might have taken childs, to LOOK
st the scratch. He pronounced the
wound nothing and told her she
should never jerk al shade-they
we're always treaeherous. He goi hold
of the one in question, rolled II up.
and then went back to his study. She
waited a moment. Then she marched
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