Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-05
MISS BELINDA GRADUATES

you had got out of him, transplanting
those old deep rooted peonies and ev-
erything, but / can see now that the
rebuff was just what his character
needed"
Ben. wish you wouldn't be SO per-
fectly ridiculousI 1 want to decide
what we shall give"
Don't interrupt me, my dear! I'm
immensely interested in this review OF
your good works in the educational
line. 1 never thought of them in this
way before. Bob Hinkly was another
one of your pupils. l recall his case
with especial gratitude, for it was
who introduced him to you, and 1 re-
member my horror when saw that
he was falling a victim to your
charms.
81 needn't have worried. You knew
how to manage him. You broke him
of the cigarette habit, made him stop
drinking and d0licately induced him to
think he was in love with a friend OF
yours who had never had beau, I'll
be bound. He has been a model huS-
band to her for three years and most
| likely he is good for all time. How
do you do it, Belinda, dear?"
Ben, you are absolutely maudlin
this morning"
"On the contrary, I'm relating the
| exact, uneXaggerated history of your
| really wonderful career. Consider
Norman Brown, for instance and OBJ
| serve what you did for him. You
| brought him with almost lightning
| rapidity to a realization Of the fact
| that he had no right to marry while
| his invalid mother lived. unless he
could very greatly increase his bank
| account. Now that his first disap-
| pointment is past, he apears cOntented
as a bachelor, and, If you won't mind
| saying It, 1 feel sure he is consider
| ably obliged for having been saved
| from precipitate matrimony."
| fAfNnTrin11E 9hTTSa Rnn - Miss
Belinda laughed. Go as far as you
| like, if it gives you any pleasure"
| Thank you! 1 had almost forgotten
| to mention that village youth VINO ex-
| changed bulbs with you long ago,
| when you were an enthusiastic gard
| ener of L."
Miss Belinda was guilty of a grim
ace.
"He was pathetically devoted to you
and 1 suppose when you fired him
with an ambition to go to college he
| thought he would return triumphantly
! some day and lay his sheepslIin in
| your lap and"
And he forgot about me and mar
ried a nice coed the day after he was
/ graduated" broke in Miss Belinda.
| so he did, but if it hadn't been for
/ you he would never have been in col
| lege to meet her. Nor would he have
| been a university professor to-day,
He is one of our most successful grad
| yates, Belinda
| Il hope you are done, Ben, for !
| should really like TO have you make a
suggestion about Tins wedding pres
emit"
| "Oh, could relate further chapters
but fear I bore you" Ben grinned at
his sister. LAS for the gift, let US get
| something worth while. Tim is n dear
| fellow-qUite sterling-and since you
polished off his rough corners so care
fully he is a friend worth having
| Indeed, 1 shouldn't have objected tC
him in q closer relation. You know
| Belinda. sometimes I've been n Bit
| sorry that you didn't take good old
Tim. How did it happen?''
why, Ben, he never asked me"
I'm glad of it," Ben reached across
the table and took the firm, capable
little hand of his sister into his big
warm one.-Exchange.