Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-01-05
HER EXTRA SESSION
Teacher Cynthia Breaks in the
New Pupil.
By A. MARIA CRAWFORD.

Bob Lawrence was disturbed. lie
struck sayagely with his cane at the
tender flowers along the country road.
lie had been promised degree OF
happiness here and he had failed. ~
usual. TO find II.
Say, mister" said small voice.
II wish you wouldn't knock the heads
OF these flowers want about
bushel OF daisies to decorate our
schoolroom tomorrow Miss Cynthias
invited the board TO hear us speak
"Cynthia?" questioned Bob. wonder
ingly. Cynthia who?"
shes just Miss Cynthia. that's ALL
answered Jimmy Green. She's about
the best locker We ever had In this
county. Pa said 80. and pa knows"
Does she teach school,"
4 You bet she does and we're learn
Ing, too. cause We love her 80 We just
study our heads OF TO see her smile, y
said Jimmy boyishly. "pou must be
Mrs.. Golfers brother, visiting over
at Three Oaks. My pa 10 the gardener
there"
You've guessed right What's
your nance"
Jimmy Green. Green and gardens
20 together. pa says
We'll. they ought to. at any rate.
Now. Jimmy. where do you 20 TO
school,"
Il don't like to tell you cause pa
said TO me. i hope Mrs. Golfers
broth don't see Miss Cynthia,
Jimmy, for she's too pretty not TO
catch any man who sees her and
you're learning so well at school. |
3 don't want you TO have to change
teachers PAS right about that.
Why. her face II Just the color OF
the apple blossoms over In your
sisters orchard Jimmy pondered
for a second Seems like ought 10
answer you civil you being a stranger
here. The schoolhouse Is about a
quarter OF mile straight down this
road She's there all right, Miss
Cynthia is She's keeping Petite Muir
ply and Tom Vance In TO learn their
b speeches for tomorrow"
Cynthia What train OF mem.
cries and pleasant dreams the word
conjured up for Bob Lawrence. who
thanked Jimmy for his information
and kept on down the road toward
the schoolhouse This time the way.
2 side flowers were free from ais bruis'
p ing cane lie was thinking thinking
intently OF the only girl who had ever
stirred any emotion IT. his heart She
too. was called Cynthia, and her
( cheeks we're like the apple blossoms
r. In his sisters orchard lie had met
a her almost a year before, a few hours
i out from Liverpool She had beer
touring the continent with a yer,
i wealthy aunt The girls beauty had
attracted him at once. and later heI
!. superb health had been added TO hel
d list OF other charms She was thu
only woman on board. so the steward
had told him, who did not miss 1
g meal
q moon Lawrence recalled how eager
@ ly be had waited for her on dect
while she went for wrap after din
nsr. They had stood together watch
n ing the moonlight on the phosphores
I cent waves and listening to the sot
strains OF a Hungarian waltz. His love
!. for her. none the less intense because
4 OF It's short duration. had stirred hin
nightly. ana he had spoken OF thai
love and asked her 20 marry him.
No she had answered. forcin,
O. back his arms, IL Is not possible W,
belong to different worlds
What difference would that make
6 II Il were true7' he had demanded
r What do you mean by differen
A., worlds7"
O You have money" she had toll
him. Il belong TO the broken dowi
aristocracy OF the south. work fo
r. my living Aunt Lydia took me 70
. this trip because | was her brother
. child and she was sorry for m
poverty" lie remembered with BIT
, terness how he had begged. storme,
and arg ed. but all 20 no purpose. 70
~, Cynthia had remained deaf 70 his en-
. treaties. protesting that his peopl
would he disappointed
when they landed. although he ha
tried 70 ind out where she lived an
follcv her. she evaded him. Ills prid
I. s,i, then. and he had turned TO hi
worL determined 10 forget the CIR
!, but IN that. too. he had failed Tn
following spring his sister wrote d
him. Your letters sound as Il 30
were blue. 90 leave your affairs the
are too enormous for a young mar
anyway-and come 10 visit me Tor te
!, days. The fishing Is fine near her,
and you can count on meudiug you
depressed spirits"
/, A voice. young and vehement. brok
into his meditation. "Yes'm, III d
my best Roth OF US will. won't ",
Tom
Lawrence looked about him Their
was the schoolhouse. and out the doc
rushed the two scholars who had bee
kept In TO learn their speeches n
watched them out OF sight. wonderin
what grouse he could offer 10 IA
country teacher n he dared go 10 IN