The Prescott daily news., 1913-12-18


 Patsy here and try to cheer her up. How many of the Dartmouth boys did you ask?"
 Four. The other two fellows l wanted went up home to Vermont, I'm glad the Abbot's coming"
 A week later Cora arrived with Pa tricia Boyd. Patsy, as everyone call ed her. was small and slender with a mass of red gold hair, eyes brown and soft as a moths wing, and q dropping mouth that pleaded for sympathy. In her dark green travel charming picture, and Rex forgot her secret trouble when he lifted her out of the tonneau bodily.
 Later he stopped his sister on the way downstairs, led her mysteriously into the small writing room next the library, and closed the door.
 Whats the matter with Patsy?" he asked.
 Rex, l think you're positively bru- tal,' Cora said, hotly. Il shall tell father if you don't open that door"
 Cora, I'm overheard, swimming for life, and you hold life preserver in your grasp to rescue your own dear brother. I'm in love with Patsy"
 You'll never even get her to listen to you, Rex. She's frantically in love with someone she met last summer at one of the coast resorts. But he was one of the coast resorts"
 Rex returned her look blankly. What resort?"
 T dout quite remember-Watch Hill, or Naragansett, or Block Island, one of them, anyway. She has a snap shot of him, and oh, Rex ne is splen- did. You never saw such eyes"
 And she wouldn't marry him be- cause he was head waiter?"
 Cora nodded. Certainly not. The Boyds are very important people in Paterson, Mass"
 The day the Dartmouth boys ar rived Patsy kept to her room and nursed hea dache. Cora. dressed in her daintiest, helped her mother make them welcome, and held Jack Pryor close to her side all the evening
 The following morning Patsy trail ed down the stairs bit languidly Jack stood with his back to the arch way, talking to Cora, very ardentN- and, happily, when suddenly he stooG up 'ery straight and his face uncon- sciously hardened. As they were in troduced, Patsy raised her long lashes and looked at him with a frightened cry of recognition.
 "Oh, do you know Jack already" asked Cora, quickly.
 He is like some one used to know" Patsy answered, bravely. and went on
 But the next two weeks were filled with cross purposes and misadven- lures. Rex kept doggedly on his own way, disregarding the past summer and all of Patsy's notions, and back kept close to Cora's side. One clear cold night they cane in from q run over the frozen .oads and stood around the great open fire in the re- ception hall. Rex knelt to take off Patsy's little fur-edgod carriage boots and Jack watched the two with half smile of amusement. When they had left the room with the others he sat alone with Cora before the fire. From the music room came the sound of Patsys fayorite "Traumerei," and Rex's laugh above +.
 T think Patsy will be my sister," said Cora, thoughtfully. Rex is fear fully sweet on her"
 She's a dear kiddie," Jack an swered, but I don't care much for the type. She's too as my old country granddad used to pet it, light-minded for me"
 Why Jack, what on earth do you mean? Shes had great sorrow, you know, only last summer"
 Yes, l think I know all about it." said Pryor, slowly, "I happen to be the head waiter Oh, don't look sa startled, Cora. A lot of us Dartmouth boys went for a lark, and We studied social conditions that way, seeing the other side of life from the other fel- lows spoint of view. It was a mighty good lesson i'll more ways than one She thought she loved me, but she couldn't stand the social condition. Poor little Patsy!"
 You may keep your pity, Jack Pry- or, came Patsy's clear treble behind them, and Rex beamed down on them placidly T am quite recovered from my summer fancy, and-you tell him, Rex"
 I'm the cure" grinned Rex.