The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-10

which would without your h
assistance have sent me home to finish
nv college course sitting round trying
to look pretty. Mamma has directed
me to invite you TO spend a part of
your vacation with us at our country
place, and we shall look for you at an
early date"
The invitation was followed up by
one more specific, and In July Profes-
sor Poland found himself at Morning
Glory-Belle had named the place from
a flower she especially loyed-a mag
nificent place In the center of spacious
grounds and commanding a fine view
OF distant hills and nearby lakes. While
Miss Halliday was in college she, Ike
other students. was under his author
ity. 1t seemed to him now that the
conditions were inverted. He appeared
TO himself nothing more than peda-
gogue with 81 little income as to be
barely able to tip the servants, while
his former pupil was arrayed In 'pur-
pie and fine linen" and occupying So
cial position to which he could never
hope for an entree, and II he was
granted an entree he would not be able
to support 1t.
| Miss Hallidays treatment OF Profess |
sor Poland was calculated to throw MIN
into a fever. She was not only gra-
cious: she was as devoted to him as he
| would have been glad to be devoted to
her were their positions reversed. Law
ishing on him such delicate attentions
| L. Ghn
feels privileged to favor. In other
words, n courtship was going on, In
which the woman was doing the court
ing. The professor sometimes drifted,
resigning himself to this delightful
spell she was throwing about him, ana
sometimes suddenly came to reallza-
tion that he was standing on the brink
OF a precipice.
Now. il women were the privileged
proposers they would doubtless acquit
themselves far better than the men.
At any rate, they are by superior del
. icacy far better fitted for the purpose
TO Miss Halliday what she was en-
gagged in was as simple to her as the
. reconstruction of the Roman forum
! would have been to Professor Polahu.
: When she was ready for his proposal
she took him out into the garden ana
: began to gather bouquet OF flowers.
! Are they for me?" asked the pro
:, fessor.
u "For your No. I'm going to be mar
ried"
The professor felt as IL some one nat
= knocked the life out of him.
= "Who is the fortunate man" III
- gasped.
. I'm not going to marry man. In
=. going to marry these flowers"
: Several months had passed sine
Professor Poland had mentioned til
a. Indian custom to his class, and 1t di
10 not occur to him that Miss Halliday
a words referred to what he had the
IN said, However, he was not afraid
,t such n rival and somewhat recovere
r: his equanimity.
"Oh! was his sole reply.
or Belle went on collecting flowers nc
he posy and when she had done
made a dumb show of affection Il
Id them There was stable on the piao
he and well from which to draw waite
I'M which was brought up by pum
be Relic went to the well, lifted tral
door and threw her bouquet down I'M
nd the opening. Then, without remar
ed she sauntered back to the garden.
IN Now. Professor Poland was not qui
he so stupid about the art of love
an might he supposed. He attended Nil
ny Halliday on her visit to the well, al
lie, when she led him to vine clad rece
lid and sat down on rustic seat vag'
st connection between what she had dol
,irl and the Indian custom he had emDo
md led in his lecture found Judgment
ell. h,s brain. He realized that this mig
liv- be In lieu of proposal. Surely 1t W
Lal- not encouragement for him to pr
ing nose 1t was either a proposal or
has was nothing. If 1t was proposai
to was incumbent on him to respond.
She he responded and Miss Hallidays q
uld meant nothing he would be in an
the fortunate position. II she meant WI
ent he suspected and he made no respon
the he would still be In an unfortunt
AXE position. What should he do?
1 to His inclinations decided him.
lch; "The honor you do me is, ! ASST
you, fully appreciated. Since 10
d a you and have loved you for some III
IL is not an absence of love that eau
me to hesitate. 1t is the disparity
our incomes"
pro- @rhat, think. can be easily arranG
end to your satisfaction. / am ready
settle upon your
d Of Pardon me; l cannot accept a
in a Element. IL marry you shall do
with the expectation Of always
naming self supporting. II am to
Mss a rich woman's husband you must
e a poor professors wife"
lion. al shall be very proud of your sta
she ing In your profession and shall
,rop- nothing to turn you away from 1t
she your enjoyment Of It."
light, And so 1t was arranged that the
Iced, lessor should still occupy his chaai
ason the university. This he did for Il
i'm Then his wife was. calling on him
Ian tinualIy for some duty in connec
? for with her estates, and at last, tint
use, that such duties took up the prime
lg to part of his time, he resigned his
fessorship and devoted his whole
ough to the management Of a prop
e re- which had by this time come tC