The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-15

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wouldn't give her the satisfaction OF
getting all nay contribution" And that
good spinster almost tainted when,
with a little shrek of joy, the speaker
fiourished the check and called out, in
notes that might have been an ANA
zon's cry: "a thousand dollars from
President Taylor Holmes. HereN
Gods blessing on the president" ana
then she had the president by both
arms and was beaming UP into his face
and smiling first at him and then at
the audience as though it was the
happiest moment of her life. That did
the business. The same tactics had
done the business at other Red Cross
drives before but no one guessed that,
as far as Justine went, 1t was some
thing that had been rehearsed care
fully. Fifteen minutes later and the
sum equaled $1,000, much of which
had come in from individual con-
tributions from the students who
gave to the utmost from their linn
tied bank accounts for the sake OF
their idol Then the actress looked at
her watch, a little platinum disk on
her wrist and said---it was of course,
part of the speech, but no one knew
about it.:
I'D stay and get another thousand,
but my train goes in five minutes ana
if l don't get that train | won't get
home for supper. So good-by every
body, and God bless yOu."
There was a murplur running along
the seats behind the speaker she
knew someone would take the cue.
Someone always did. The president
rose to go forward and his sister rose
and tugged at his coat tails this time
with great definiteness of purpose.
"Don't for heavens sake ask her to
supper. 1t would ruin your reputation.
Mark my word, it would be against
traditions"
| But the president didn't mark his
sisters words of wisdom, and after
whispering to the speaker, she turned
and called exultantly to her audience:
doctor Holmes has asked me to go
home and have dinner at his house, SO
I don't have to get that train at all.
Bully for Doctor Holmes. I'll have
chance to get thousand more"
She did get the thousand more, and
then she and the president and the
presidents sister started home. Inc
president drove his car and the two
women sat In the seat behind. The
sister said nothing, and as matter OF
fact, the young woman who had been
so energetic and animated, now seemed
exhausted and dropped In her seat.
The president turned to look at her.
| She seemed paler than she had ap-
peared and, though she looked young
er there was less of purposefulness in
her expression.
/ However. once in the presidents
coy, homelike study, with the pros
pect of dinner at hand, her spirits were
revived, and while the sister busted
herself about the dining room-for
since that. actress-person insisted on
staying it was her duty to get the best
POSSIBLE dinner-the professor stood
over the guests chair and looked anx-
1 iously into her face. He felt as If he
had known her longer than any other
woman in the world, and he felt, too.
1 as If during the few minutes of his
sisters absence he ought to take her
tired body in his arms and tell her
that she was wonderful. Instead, he
told her very tenderly that she SEEM
ed fatigued, and then pressing her hand
in his, thanked her for coming to start
the drive.
The president and the actress start
ed out alone at nine for the train and
it was at the actress suggestion that
they missed the train and took little
country DEPRESSION. And before they
had gone half mile the dignified pro-
fessor told the woman at his side that
he had fallen very much in love with
her. He told her he was telling her be-
cause he should probably never see
her again. 1t would be necessary in
their different spheres Of life that their
| ways should part, he said, but he
would always remember her as the one
woman in the world. Frankly" he
said, 81 could no more marry an ac-
tress that you would want to marry
and settle down here as college pres
ident's wife,"
sTm not an actress" came very
weakly, and then the hat was slipped
back, and with it the red wig and girl
with light brown disheveled curls sat
beside him. "At the last minute Miss
Flanders couldn't come. / am one Of
| the volunteer Red Cross speakers In a
small way, and I knew her speech by
heart. And when she couldn't come
to headquarters they sent me on as her
understudy. / just borrowed one of
her red wigs. She hasn't real red
hair, either, but no one knows that,
and so I initiated her and said her
speech and"
The college president forgot that
his car had stopped half way up
slight embankment, whittier it had
wandered of its own accord. He was
too much preocclpied in clasping the
girl at his side to his heart.
| The funny part of it was that Bish-
opstown long remembered the visit of
Justine Flanders, but they never did
find out where President Holmes met
the sweet, quiet little woman who be
came his wife.
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