The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-12
Promoted to the
High School
BY OLIVE EDNA MAY


mcs without vacation, had workc
very hard, and In the autumn felt tina
he required rest or change. HI
nerves We're on edge.
He concluded to 90 to a New Eng
land village where there was n goo,
library. In the morning lie walked, II
the afternoon he read in the library an,
at 0 o'clock In the evening went to bed
One crisp November morning Will
walking along country road he saw
al auto coming. Its motion varied be
tween five and twenty-five miles al
hour, and its direction was wabbly
"That chauffeur" remarked Huntley
doesn't know his business. Reckon
he's never handled an auto before
When the machine came near enough
for him to see 1t plainly the chauffeur
was seen to he n young woman. tt
Huntley she appeared to be about six
teen years old. She stopped In the mid
die Of the road md said:
do you know anything about auto
mobiles, sir?'
Certainly. What can do for you r.
why, I've come out without much
experience and have been getting rat
tied ever since I started have I'M
dertaken to go from one place to an
other, twenty miles apart, have got
midway between the two, and II
continue to manage as badly as / have
l shall get killed before reaching my
destination. Besides, l think there is
something the matter with the ma
chine"
Huntley looked the auto over, and
while he was doing so the girl alighted
and joined him on the road. When he
turned from the machinery and looked
at her he saw one arrayed in the cos
tune Of the period. In other words,
she wore hat shaped like coal
scuttle, coat-she had left her fur
coat In the auto-like pair of bee
ties wings, while her skirt about her
ankles would have fitted about her
neck. Huntley had seen hundreds of
girls on the street In the city from
fourteen to eighteen dressed exactly
In that fashion.
"Your machine seems to be all
right he said ''If you will permit
me will get in with you and be your
chauffeur for awhile. Then / can tell
Letter If there is anything the matter
with It,"
The young lady was only too glad |
to have him take the responsibility Off |
her shoulders. So Huntlcy stepped |
Into the auto and chug-chugged away |
down the road The girl hoped she |
wasn't taking him out of his way, to |
which he replied that all ways were 1
his, since he was an idler. Then he /
began TO chat with her, remarling that
she should learn to run her auto. for
'he would find it very convenient.
Among the uses to which 1t might be
tut was going to school, TO this the
Toung lady remarked that she would
Ind 1t convenient indeed, especially
ince her books We're heavy to carry.
iuntley asked her what grade she had
cached in school, and she said Next
ear I'm going to be advanced to the
Ugh school,
Though she said this with some
ride, Huntley didn't consider that she
ad cause to be proud, for he thought !
er old enough to be in the high school
lready. However, he was more en-
with her prattle than he
'ould have been with that of a wo-
AN near his own age Indeed, he
as so pleased with the little miss :
lat he drove her to her destination. :
Then he left her and she expressed h
or obligation to him he said the OBJ b
cation was his--that he found him C
III much refreshed with the innocent y
lat of schoolgirl and wished he 8
light repeat the ride She seemed g
UGH gratified with this and said that y
hen he came to the town where she !, u
ved she would be pleased to have :
m drop In and see her mother. 81
Huntley, having obliged himself to !,
Judge back ten miles for the pleasure f.
; had enjoyed, was not likely to re- S
ain away from the person whose p'
llldish chat had so amused him At fc
~ rate, to get away with an evening
the evenings being the hardest part y
the day to get Overcome night, when l.,
0 moon was shining brightly through ~
e crisp autumn air. he started to walk Ia
the girls home to call on her moth W
She had given him her name, but
was not sure Of her address. so on
aching the town he was aiming for W
dropped in at bookstore to in
ire. VI
DO you know Mrs BeckwIth?" he
ked the proprietor.
Certainly. I have Just taken an or w
r for books for the next year in the ca
Oh school OF which she Is TO be prin- $
,al" te
Vow, II Huntley hadn't remembered ~
out the girls being promoted next ~
ar the suspicion that came upon him
idenly wouldn't have been excited. II,
Isn't she rather young" he asked. sh
} be principal of high school?'
rhe man smiled. "She could easily tn
rs for one of her pupils" he said. M
he's twenty-slx and looks sixteen. M
2 was graduated from college six na
IRIS ago and took every honor. She !
an intellectual wonder" in,
iuntley took the lady's address and
de his call. Miss Beckwith herself an
ne down to receive him Her skirt wa
s not so short as the one she had SO