Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-08-01

lifted by the explanation. Everyone
seems to mean youl You certainly do
seem to have been pretty busy this
week you've been here"
She pressed her bouquet to her face
again and laughed into it, not dis
pleased. She made no other com
ment, and for another period neither
spoke.
"Well," said George finally, 81 must
say you don't seem to be much of a
prattler. They say it's great way
to get a reputation for being wise
never saying much. Don't you ever
talk at all?"
"When people can understand" she
answered.
He had been looking moodily out
at the ballroom, but he turned to her
quickly, at this, saw that her eyes
were sunny and content, over the top
of her bouquet, and he consented to
smile.
Girls are usually pretty fresh" he
said. "They ought to go to a mans
college about a year: they'd get
taught a few things about freshness -!
What you got to do after two o'clock
tomorrow afternoon"
"A whole lot of things. Every min
ute filled up"
"All right" said George. 1.-THE
SHOWS fine for sleighing: I'll come for
you in a cutter at ten minutes after
two"
AZ can't possibly CO."
IF you don't" he said, "I'm going
to sit in the cutter in front of the
gate, wherever you're visiting, all
afternoon, and if you try to go out
with anybody else he's got to whip
me before he gets you" And as she
laughed-though she blushed little.
too-he continued, seriously: IF you
think I'm not in earnest you're at lib
erty to make quite big experiment.
She laughed again. 81 don't think
I've often had so large a compliment
as that" she said, especially on such
short notice-and yet l don't think
I'll go with you" E.
"You be ready at ten minutes after
two"
mo, I won't"
eyes, you will"
eyes" she said, 81 will" And her
partner for the next dance arrived,
breathleSS with searching.
Don't forget I've got the third
from now" George called after her.
When "the third from now" came
George presented himself before her
without any greeting, like a brother
or a mannerleSs old friend. Both
George and Miss Morgan talked much
more to everyone else that evening
than to each other and they said
nothing at all at this time. Both
looked preoccupied as they began to
dance. and preserved gravity Of eX-
preston to the end of the number
And their next number they did not
dance, but went back to the gallery
stairway, seeming to have reached
an understanding without any verbal
consultation that this suburb was
again the place for them.
well" said George coolly, when
they were seated, what did you say
your name was?"
Morgan"
Funny name!"
Everybody else's name always is"
81 didn't mean it was really funny"
George explained That's just one
of my crowds bits of horsing at col
lege. We always say funny name, no
matter what it is. | guess we're pref
ty fresh sometimes; but | knew your
name was Morgan because my mother
said so downstairs. 1 meant: what's
the rest of it?"
Lucy"
"How old are your George asked.
Il don't really know myself"
"What do you mean: you don't
really know yourself|
II mean l only know what they
tell me- l believe them, of course,
but believing isn't really knowing"
Look here!" said George. do you
always talk like this?"
Miss Lucy Morgan laughed forgiv-
ingly, put her young head on one side
like a bird and responded cheerfully:
I'm willing to learn wisdom. What
are you studying at schooll"
"Collegew
"At the university! Yes What are
you studying there?"
George laughed. LOT O. useless
CUFF !"
"Then why don't you study some
useful guff?"
"What do you mean: UsefulY"
Something you'd use later, in your
business or profession?
George waved his hand impatient
ly. Il don't expect to 60 into any
business or profession
"No?"
Certainly notW George was en-
phatic, being sincerely annoyed by a
suggestion which showed how utterly
she failed to comprehend the kind of
person he was.