The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-10-30
Ills Great
Discovery
And the Events That Led
Him Up 70 1t.
BY cEClLY ALLEN.

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The Pelham twin who wore petit
coats smiled in superior fashion on the
Pelham twin who wore pants. -,
The. proud possessor of infinitesimal
knickerbockersi glared back at her of
the. petticoats
IL shall have to tell mumzey." said
Miss Petticoats.
If you do, shall pinch you black
and blue" replied her brother. nearly
tearing himself away from Douglas
Raymond, newly arrived assistant at
Norris Manor school, who was awk-
wardly trying to fasten coat buttons
for his rebellious pupil.
Natalie has been waiting most an
hour. She says your naughtiness will
give her new money, maybe. and you'll
be sorry when she's dead
J II won't give her anything of the
sort, you ninn," replied the Pelham in
pants as he jerked on his mitten.
! "And love Natalie much better than
you do. Anyway, I was only kept in
ten minutes, eh, Mr.. Raymond?"
Very gravely Douglas Raymond drew
out his watch and glanced at it.
Twelve minutes, and you might
have gone two minutes ago II you had
not tied the sleeves Of your coat to-
gether. Tell your nurse that the next
time you are kept in for being naugh-
ty boy she had best come inside and
wait" .s:..sz,
The Pelham twins trotted sturdily
toward the door. the boy dinging over
his shoulder:
Natalie is not our nurse. We don't
have nurse any more. She's our sis
ter" Then, stopping stock still, he
added: "And there will not be any next
time. Cracky, won't Natalie be tickled
when l. tell her. you thought she was
our nurse!" $50
Douglas Raymond sighed as the door
closed on the twins. Then he crossed
the room and stood looking down in
the street. And for this he had taken
high college honors!
He had just missed a small college
professorship = through lack Of intlu-
ence ~ and with his mother dependent
upon him he had not dared to refuse
the liberal financial offer of the master
Of Morris Manor, fiourishing private
school overlooking the Hudson. Even.
that offer had not come until midwin-
ter, after death had caused q vacancy
on the Morris Manor staff and when
Douglas had almost decided to give up
his college ambitions and dig into COM
merce.
Morris Manor was boarding school
for boys, with a few day pupils drawn
from the rich owners Of country homes
thereahouts. Just across the tree lined
avenue was fashionable school for
girls. Evidently from this school had
come the small sister Of his rebellious
pupil. He leaned over the window
ledge to see whether they were safely
on their homeward way, and suddenly
his fingers gripped the stone coping.
The twins were dancing up the street.
one on either side of tall. slender
girl, clad in natty skating suit, with
a scarlet tam-o' -shanter on her well
poised head.
Natalie And he had not guessed.
However, he would know the graceful
walk, the splendidly poised head.
among thousand. The trio disap-
peared around the corner, and he hur-
ried back to his desk
William Reginald Pelham
There, it stood OH the ''D'' class list.
Douglas had not had time to become
familiar with his roll book The wise
looking little laddie who said such as
tonishingly rebellious things in such a
precise way had been known to him
! during that first school day only. as
Willie" If he had only known most
certainly he would not have detained
the boy and let her stand out in the
cold. What if she did have pneu-
lnonia-
He tried to correct the copybooks.
but his thoughts would wander
I Why was she here! Why had she
not carried out her original intention
Of going abroad to study art? And. II
| she was not studying, what was the
Pelham family doing at their country
place in midwinter with the social
season in full swing in the city?
He might have known that Willie
was her brother. Her odd, demure
way of saying startling things had first
attracted his attention to her and final
" nearly wrecked his last year In col
lege. How could he work, then, with
| the thought that love and the girl who
was all In the world to him were alike
beyond his reach? There was his fu-
| ture to carve. his mother to support. a
few Of his fathers debts to pay, and
on the other side Natalie Pelham. the
Pelham wealth, the Pelham position.
She had been flirting with him, Of
course, not willfully. but just because
it came as naturally to her as eating
! and drinking. She had never taken
/ him seriously, and after commences
ment day, when he had gone out west
to teach In a summer school and give
his mother little rest in a quiet sum
mer resort, he had dropped out Of her
life just as II there had never been
teas in the frat room, moonlight