Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-08-25

in persons of a certain kind. Her
brows were lifted with the barest per
ceptible touch of scorn at the mix-up
in Bills grammar, but these were
things that were wholly unobserved
by the lawyer
"Who? Antoinette. Don't you see
herr"
She pointed to the street, and there
in the very middle of 1t sat black
Italian toy terrier complacently wink
ing at its mistress from it's highest
pinnacle of danger. So small it. was
that its size, in an analysis of its gen.
eral properties and characters, would
be totally negligible quantity.
With the vehicles that were Gathering
or humming on either side of it, at the
imminent risk of snuffing it out of ex-
istence, it formed the antithesis of
the helplessly little in the center of
the pitilessly great.
t. was hardly the work of minute
for Bill to cut through the stream OF
automobiles and horses, to make a
handful of Antoinette, and to return
the toy to the hand Of the lady.
Thank you," she said with smile
of relief cit was very good of you!
Poor little thing!"
She gave him her hand and looked
into his eyes.
What a nice little maid, thought
Bill, now that he had chance to
study her in what was undoubtedly
her normal state of mind. In spite
| of the hat, the volume Of which
seemed to have been determined in In
verse ratio to that of the terrier, she
was unquestionably one of the neatest
little maids he had ever seen. To
| Bills philosophical eyes she looked
like girl who was young enough to
be in the last year of the high school
and old enough to be out of it. She
| was just the kind of girl he would
have fancied for companion, had he
ever given any particular thought to
| the subject in serious way There
was nothing extravagant about her
If you allowed for the size of the hat.
And even in the matter of the hat it
self, it occurred to Bill for the first
time that perhaps these large hats,
| that to him had looked like inverted
wash-tubs, and had filed him with dis
gust for the supine insanity of men
in general and of women in particu-
lar, had been originally designed for
| girls of certain natural get-up-l1ke
| this one, for example And then
there was another phase of her that
looked good to Bill-and it was a
phase that had been markedly absent
from most of the girls that had both
cred him-up to the present. She was
without question the most sensible
girl he had ever met. She could look
at you and talk to you just as II she
were man; nothing of the giggling
OF squeaking order about this one;
none of that fool grinning you see in
| the case of the regular girls you pick
up here and there in the stray mo-
ments of busy and thoughtful life
He fancied that he would wait for
awhile before returning to his fathers
roof, and he grinned like an inane
lout
That's a nice little dog, isn't it?"
Eyes, it is very nice little dog.
Do you live in New York;"
"Yes. In the law. With Skinnim,
Skinner & Skinner. Yale, nineteen
six Phi Beta Kappa"
| what is Phi Beta Kappa?"
Don't you know what Phi Beta
Kappa is? It's the scholarship frat.
They give you keys. Like this one"
"The key Of knowledge, / presume
How pretty!"
"'T1sn't so awfully pretty, but it's
pretty hard to get. Have you ever
been to college?"
No, she had never been to college.
Not a doubt about 1t, she was a
simple little maid. She had never
even heard of Phi Beta Kappa. He
had fancy he would like to tell her
about Phi Beta Kappa and the rest
of it.
wouldn't you like to hear about
the fraternities they have in the uni
versity?"
"Have you time to tell me about
them?"
Thine? Why, yes. I'd just as soon
tell you about them as not You real
" ought to know about the college
fraternities. People will believe that
you never had any education at all II
you happen not to know about that"
"f they do" said the girl, ''they
will happen to be perfectly right"
They were walking up the avenue
and it seemed to Bill that she was
looking straight ahead to a degree
that was altogether unnecessary. Nor
did she seem at all aware that Bill was
making himself dizzy with the sight
of her Suddenly she stopped and
| faced him.
Are you on your way to your Of
fice?" she asked him under the caves
of the hat.
"The Office? Why, no. The ONCE
| is away down town"
She looked at him with evident
| hesitation; with deep questioning
in her eyes; and then glanced up at
| the four-story brown stone house be-