The Nevada County picayune., 1911-08-25

in persons or 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? Antonette. 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 it's mistress from it's highest pinnacle of danger So small 1t was that it's size, in an analysis of it's gen. eral properties and characters, would be a totally negligible quantity With the vehicles that were clattering or humming on either side of it, at the imminent risk of snufiing it out of ex- istence. it formed the antithesis of the helplessly little in the center of the pitilessly great.
 It 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 tte hand of the lady.
 Thank you" she said with a smile of relief "It was very good of you! Poor little thing"
 She gave him her hand and looked into his eyes.
 What a nice little maid, thought l Bill. now that he had a 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 l Bills philosophical eyes she looked like a girl who was young enough to be in the last year of the high school and old enough to be out of 1t. She was just the kind of a girl he would have fancied for companion. had he ever given any particular thought to the subject In a 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, 1t occurred to Bill for the first time that perhaps these large hats, that to him had looked like inverted wash-tubs, and had filled 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 a certain natural get-up-like 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 if she were a man; nothing of the giggling or 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 nice little dog, isn't it?"
 Yes, it Is a very nice little dog. Do you live in New York;"
 Yes. In the law With Skinnim, Skinner & Skinnem. 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"
 "'Tisn't so awfully pretty, but it's pretty hard to get. Have you ever been to a college?"
 No, she had never been to college.
 Not doubt about it. she was a simple little maid. She had never even heard of Phi Beta Kappa He had a 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 yersity?"
 Have you time to tell me about them?"
 Time? Why, yes. I'd just as soon tell you about them as not. You real. ly ought to know about the college fraternities. People will believe that you never had any education at all if you happen not to know about that"
 If 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 fce?" she asked him under the caves of the hat.
 The office? Why, no The office is away down town"