The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-05
The EVENING STORY
Tutoring Pamela.
CRy Jane Osborn.)

Tom Jarrold adjusted his spectacles
| with precision, opened the solid
| Geometry to the fifth proposition and
| drew his chair close to the table. Pa
| mela Desmond on the other side of the
| table placed a pair. of round-eyed spec
! tacles on her nose. opened her book and
| drew her chair nearer to the table.
! Mr.. Jarrold took up a pencil and exam
/ ined it's point. and Pamela did the
same at which Jarrold colored little
! and cleared his throat.
| "Ahem!' echoed Pamela, and then
looked over the top of her absurdly
| large spectacles so penitently that MI.
! Jarrold was disarmed. Il am sorry 1
mimicked you," she said.
Jarrold ignored this and plunged val
iantly into the geometry lesson. I'VE
wasted so much time last week." he
said.
| Pamela was affectionately turning
! over the well-worn pages that she had
studied. "I thought I had been work.
| ing so hard since you came" she said,
with a sigh. In the next ten minutes
Mr.. Jarrold tried to focus Pamela's
mind on the mysteries Of the fifth prop
| osition.
| You see, Miss Desmond"
Don't you call me Miss Desmond"
snapped Pamela. "It sounds as if you
| riding up the mountain together you
weren't like this. It is just when you
wear your spectacles and get on that
| schoolma'am manner. There was an
old maid up at college that taught me
Latin that you make me think of now.
IT am paid by your father to teach
you Mathematics said Jarrold
sternly. TT it weren't for that it
| would be different Then, of course. I
| would be glad to do as you wanted
me to-
Lets go riding up the mountain
again today" leased Pamela, leaning
over the table and trying to close his
| book over his fingers. Come on,
please We have studied almost an
hour
weeks before college opens and you
have to take your deficiency ex-
aminations. I have given my word to
your father to get you through this
book So long as I stay here shall
| insist on teaching you"
1T will go tell Michael to saddle
the horses and then you will have to
go with me-" Pamela had pulled off
her spectacles, jumped to her feet
and had run to the door. But Tom
reached the door before she did and i
barred the way. II am in charge of
your studies and 1 insist that you go
on with your work. I shall not allow
you to go!"
"You!" exclaimed Pamela, the color
of anger coming into her cheeks.
you not allow me! Let me out, L
Still Tom barred the way, and Pa
mela c1apped her muscular small
hands over his wrist. You treat me
as If I were q mere child!
You are" said Tom, land very
foolish child, too"
II am nineteen" she said, land you
are only twenty-five Besides, my
father is paying you and if tell you
I want you to take me riding up the
mountains instead of teaching me
geometry you are obliged to do it. I
would get some one else to go with
me only there isn't any one. If you
don't take me I will go anyway. I
will make Michael give me the
horse
Pamela's voice was shaking with
excitement and she was digging her
fingers into Toms wrist. II will go
with you now" said he, his own
voice a little uncertain. but If I do
I shall not remain here. I shall
speak to your father tonight
VERY well. there are more tutors
where you came FROM" said Pamela
with a toss of her head, but now you
have given in, I won't be disagaree-
able. I hope I didn't hurt your
wrist" she said.
In a quarter of an hour they were
off up the mountains, their lunch
back, and all day, till late afternoon,
they rambIed on horseback over the
mountain and wooded path. That
night when Tom went to his room to
dress for dinner he had time to think
it over.
For the past year he had been
working on a large watershed dam In
a nearby mountain and, when in the
early summer this work drew to a
close, he had accepted an offer to
go west to take up a similar con-
struction in the early autumn. It was
a good offer and it was worth wait
ing for, but in the meantime he had
two or three months of leisure. 1t
had occurred to him to tide the time
over in tutoring. There were always
wealthy city people in the mountains
during the summer and he could sure
ly find among them some young boys
he forgot that girls, too, go to col
lege-who would be glad to have his
services a tutor in college mathe-
mates and engineering. In the mean
time he could brush up his own mind
on the theoretical side of his profess
sion and have the opportunity to take
little rest. So he sent an adver-
tisement to be posted in the local post
office and received a communication
from Mr.. Desmond, one of the wealth.
lest men in the region.
Desmond's letter was short. MY
child, PAM" he said, sis a sophomore
! in college but has failed in mathemat-
les examinations. Will you accept po-
sition as resident tutor at my summer
hume IOI iIIOHlHS VI uly ana August
for two hundred dollars a month
Come at once if agreeable. 1 have
! looked up your record and find it o. k
and Tom having heard of Mr.. Des-
mond's high business reputation, sent
back a special messenger accepting
the post.
There he met PAMELA, who turned
out to be a very pretty, sunburned,
tumble-haired girl. She had failed
in college mathematics and had to pass
her deficiency examination before she
would be readmitted. Tom foresaw
no trouble at first-that is, until he be-
bon ba frd da1r of ic aci-