The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-06-13

rough boy. And I will certainly re-
port it to Professor Reed" she said.
She went hack to her pupils. and
Kitty hurried upstairs to her own
brood. where she lectured Arthur. a
sullen. rather g~ood-looking boy, Sc
verely and extorted a reluctant prom
Use that he would avoid trouble in the
future.
Kitty was glad that it was Friday
afternoon and a trying week was
about to end-the last week of the
first month of the school year. She
was tidying her desk. the last scholar
j%anitor. was emptying the waste has
ket when Professor Reed stepped in.
He was a keen-eyed young man, with
all the poise that four years at Har-
ward give and a distinctive contrast
to old Professor Hale. who had re-
signed at the beginning Of the year on
account Of i'll health. Kitty had never
minded when gray-whiskered old
Professor Hale came in. his face stern
and his eyes twinkling, to learn why
h couldn't make those young limbs
embarra ssed her. She always had the
impression, that he was contrasting
her with Lucille. So now she answer
ed briefly that Arthur had promised
to amend his ways. Professor Reed
fingered a minute. evidently wanting
to talk further, but her air of reserve
did no encourage him, and finally he
withdrew. A moment later she saw
him go down the street with Lucille.
Both were talking gayiy.
Kitty closed her desk slowly. Some
how Lucille stirred all the latent dis
content of her ordinarily contented
disposition. Kitty as the Oldest Of
eight children had got an education
more by logged will power than by
any other means. A day at school
had been followed by two day at
home caring for one of the ever arriv-
ing babies. Her father was a shift
less laborer. who worked wnen the
spirit moved him, which was not reg
ularly. Her mother was always tired
and ailing. When she finally got a GER
tifcate. and after two years in the
country schools a town grade, her
monthly check Immediately moved
the family from penury to comfort.
Now she was bending every effort to
pull two young sisters to the ann goal
and help the oldest hoy to the trades
school that he longed for.
Lucille Karrell was the only daugh-
ter Of the president of the bank. She
had spent two years in an exclusive
boarding school. two years at VaSsar,
and then when she came home went
into the schools from a whim that she
called a. desire to be in the world and
other people called a desire to pose.
It probably was a mixture Of both.
She was a pretty girl in a prin. dam
ty blond style. Kitty was better look
ing. with dark blue eyes but she was
not SO we'll groomed. Lucille always
wore dainty dresses. Her scholars
proudly boosted that their teacher
wore the prettiest clothes in town. The
KarreIl laundress threatened every
week to quit. Kitty, with her one
plain serge skirt and three not re-
markable short waists. was envious
when she had time. But she seldom
had time. The seventh grade is o
the kind to allow it's teacher much OPP
portunity for mental leisure. And at
home there was always enough work
to root idle r%epinings. This afternoon
she hurried, anxious to cut out a new
skirt for herself. haste up a house
dress. for her mother, and learn TO-
Nell, who was in the third-year high
school, had got along with an essay
that she had beer worrying over the
evening before.
But Nell had no thought for the
essay. She came flying to meet her
sister and pulled her into the side
porch where the family could not hear.
Nell's pretty young face flushed with
anger and her yes snapped. "Say,