The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
OUT OF HIS CLASS
By JANE OSBORN.

disputed widow Of Clayton college.
And after she had ushered seven
classes into Clayton she was smilingly
spoken OF by the other girls Of the !
town a. The Youths Companion"
1t was because she resented |
this or because Of deeper reason 1t !
10 hard to tell. but Just ~ the eighth |
freshman class since her eighteenth |
was about to enter Clayton,
Katherine Morley assumed another
pose.
College men failed to interest her
any longer, she told people. They
had no true feeling. Her ideal man
was more OF primitive"
This was all right - . drawing.
room pose. but when Katherine put It
into practice and began to be seen
walking ON Sunday afternoons in the
country and attending local attractions
with . certain handsome young fac
tory foreman whose cheap green suit
and creaky shoes. wide spreading hat
and gaudy neckties were suggestive Of
Hungarian peasant origin. the college
community was filled with consterna-
ton. And when this Irritation lasted
through the winter, and Katherine
quite frankly mentioned this young
peasant Alec Brajaska - to her
friends and received him at her home
when her father was away, things be-
gan to look serious
Most to be pitied was Doctor Nor
ley, her father. One day his assistant
in the sociology department. Boards
lev Drew, suggested that he might be
Of some assistance.
Something surely will have to be
DONE" replied the father. 1T is get
ting to be outrageous. have spoken
to Katherine myself about it. l dread
taking the step, but l see no other
way out of it. am afraid Katherine
is serious. ! can have ct least the
satisfaction Of knowing something Of
the mans origin. must know
whether there is any reason why Kath-
crime ought not to marry him. ! know
Of no one who can undertake the in
vestigation so well as you, Mr.: Drew"
The result of this conference was
that Prof. Beardsley Drew undertook
the task Of looking into the record
and standing of Alec Brajaska. As q
professor Of sociology, he had studied
perhaps more interestedly than DR..
Morley knew, the life and the Gus
toms Of the factory elements Of the
men and women in town, who were
SO far removed from the college circle
and college interests. He knew their
various dialects, and the task was not
difiicult.
Drew began his task In Q sensible
way by discarding his regular clothes
which would have branded him as an
outsider. and with q shabby suit and
q pair of brilliant tan shoes and q
cheap broad brimmed felt hat he sal
lied forth.
He went to the house where Bra
jaska was known to live 1t was at
the hour when the young man would
naturally be at work. A young for
eign woman answered his knocking
and proved to be the daughter Of thu
woman who kept the boarding house
at which Brajaska and several Of hi
associates took their meals. Pr0fes
sor Drew arranged to take board o
the same place. It was the easies
way to evade suspicion. and as he wal
having q weeks vacation he coult
carry out his plan without fear o
being suspected.
He occasionally talked with Bra
jaska, but more frequently with tn
associates. He fingered after the 9th
er boarders one morning at breakfas
and started to speak Of Brajaska Il
Magda, the young daughter.
You seem to know Brajaska," h.
said. How is It? Did you know
him in the old country"
Magda told him a few things abou
his bringing up. his boyhood amb
lions. He was thirty and she wa
twenty They had lived on ad1oinin
farms in the old country and for year
her father had been saving to com
to this country and had influence
Alec to come. They had all come Il
gether and then her father had diet
= Suddenly the girl stopped talkin
!. and then Morley looked up in surpris
: to see that she was crying. He pu
: his hand impulsively on her shoulde
and she did not resent 1t. She wa
: apparently too much preoccupied wit
her own grief.
do you not know" she asked
about me and Brajaska? I was prom
= Used to him. and we were going to b
married in the spring. and then
beautiful, very beautiful lady with
great deal of money took him AVA!
She will marry him. Brajaska ha
said So"
r Drew's first feeling was for the III
fortunate Magda This feeling wa
p followed by one of anger at Brajaski
Z who had the insolence to desert
s woman OF his own class and becaus
of his good looks win the affection (
another woman OF his class.
K Drew remained at the boardin
g house a week. each day growing moi
e and more acquainted with the sorro1
e full little Magda. The last day OF b
q vacation was to be the day of the e
o cursion and Drew had seen th'
Magda had refused the invitation
8 several of the younger men to go wit
e them. Then he asked her to go wit
a him. She looked away from hi
!. shyly.
d mo" she said 1T would not