The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-08

be one of those girls ?' he asked hur-
riedly. To flirt with a girl who
might later be a student in one of
his classes and who possessed the dig
nifty of being a candidate for a college
degree was quite another thing from
passing feak otherwise duh moments
with a forlorn little kitchen maid
whose youthful charms happened to
take his fancy.
Il don't look it, do II" asked Ur-
sula in a way that dispelled the in
Structor'S anXietieS.
tOf course, you don't" he assured
her. when 1 get this job out here
in the fall I'm going to manage
somehow to see more of you Per
haps my sister will get you to work
for US instead of the ~Judsons. No
one need know that l arranged 1t,
and somehow we can manage to have
few good times together. L see
you aren't going to be cross with me,
are you?"
Then you are really going to get
the appointment Ursula asked with
feigned enthusiasm over the prospect.
Surely. Did you hear me pulling
the wool over the old man eyes? did
manage to make a good impression,
even if you, you little beauty. were
doing your best to rattle me. The only
person standing in the way of me,
understand, was that son of the pro-
fessor's, Rodney Judson. And, of
course, he wouldn't stand any show
against me even with MS own 1ather
Young Mr.. Greig had abandoned the
| task of assistant and stood very close
to the girls side where he could see
every graduation in the coral tints that
came and went in her cheeks under
his gaze.
as she heard the first football of Rod
ney Judson outside.
You won't send me away without a
better goodnight than that that
was what the young instructor intend
| ed to say, but he never said it. For
before he could say more. than two
| syllables, Rodney Judson stood before
! him in the kitchen. He made badly
calculated step toward the back stairs.
| Don't hurry away said Ursula
very sweetly, turning to the profess
| or's son who was in the kitchen by
this time. Rodney, Mr.. Greig has
been down to get a glass of water. Mr..
| Greig, it will do no harm to tell you
that Mr. Judson and 1 am engaged
though as yet we have not told even
| Rodney's parents. 1 am sure we can
| depend on your confidence. I was
| just telling Mr.. Greig about our sys-
| tenn of student helps and 1 was going
! to explain 10 him that if it were not
for that system l would never have
had chance of coming to college or
| of meeting you, Rodney"
Splendid idea" stammered Mr..
! Greig by all means you can trust
me- and then, Selling the empty
tumbler, he hurried up the back stairs.
| GOOD news" said Rodney when
they were alone. THE presidf mt de-
cided against Greig when he saw him
this afternoon. Wouldn't give his rea-
sons. And he called me over tonight
to tell me he would give me the APP
| pointment instead. Too bad for poor
| Greig, but it means we won't have to
wait many months more. OF course,
| they'll pay Greig's expenses out here,
| but L m sorry for him. He didn't seem
| like bad sort, did you think SOP"
Il don't believe he would ever have
| fitted in here at Brompton," Ursula
commented. He wasn't just exactly
| our sort" And being wiser than her
years Ursula never had another COM
ment to make on the rejected instruc-
| -(Copyright, 1917, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)