The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-12-26
Promoted to the
High School
By OLIVE EDNA MAY

he required rest or a change. Ills
nerves were on edge.
He concluded to go to New Eng
land village where there was GOOD
library In the morning he walked. IN
the afternoon he read in the library and
at 8 O'Clock in the evening went to bed
One crisp November morning while
walking along a country road he saw
an auto coming It's motion varied be-
tween five and twenty-five miles an
hour and it's 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 it plainly the chauffeur
was seen to be young woman. 10
Huntley she appeared to be about six
teen years old. She stopped in the mid
die of the road and said:
DO you know anything about auto
mobiles, sir?'
Certainly. What can | do for your
why, I've come out without much
experience and have been getting rat
tied ever since | started. | have I'M
dertaken to go from one place to an
other, twenty miles apart, have got
midway between the two, and if
continue to manage as badly as have
| 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 be 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 CO.'S
tune of the period In other words,
she wore a hat shaped like coal
scuttle, a cOat-she had left her fur
coat in the autO-like a pair of bee
ties wings. while her skirt about her
ankles wHuld have fitted about her
neck. Huntey 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
better 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 Huntley 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
his. since he was an idler Then he
began to chat with her. remarking that
she should learn to run her auto. for
she would find it very convenient.
Among the uses to which it might be
put WAS going to school. To this the
yonn" lady remarked that she would
find il convenient indeed. especially
<'n'" her books were heavy to carry.
"''''pv asked her what grade she had
j" school, and she said. Next
ng to he advanced to the
10 she said this with some
.untIey didn't consider that she
So to be proud. for he thought
'' Il enough to be in the high school
ready However, he was more en-
ct i'l'd with her prattle than he
would have been with that of a wo-
man near his own age Indeed. he
was so pleased with the little miss
ihA' Il" drove her to her destination.
't left her and she expressed
- cation to him he said the OBJ
ten was his-that he found him
self much refreshed with the innocent
chat of schoolgirl and wished he
might repeat the ride She seemed
much gratitied with this and said that
when he came to the town where she
lived she would be pleased to have
him drop in and see her mother
Huntley. having obliged himself to
trudge back ten miles for the pleasure
ne had enjoyed was not likely to re-
main away from the person whose
childish chat had so amused him. At
any rate. to get away with an evening
the evenings being the hardest part
of the day to get Overcome night, when
the moon was shining brightly through
the crisp autumn air. he started to walk
to the girls home to call on her moth
err She had given him her name. but
he was not sure of her address. so on
reaching the town he was aiming for
he dropped in at a bookstore to in
quire
DO you know Mrs. Beckwithp" he
asked the proprietor
Certainly have just taken an or
der for books for the next year in the
high school Of which she is to be prin-
cipal"
Now. If Huntley hadn't remembered
about the girls being promoted next
year the suspicion that came upon him
suddenly wouldn't have been excited.
isn't she rather young" he asked
to be principal of a high school,?
The man smiled "She could easily
pass for one of her pupils" he said.
shes twentysix and looks sixteen
She was graduated from college six
years ago and took every honor She
Is considered an intellectual wondor,,