The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-07-22

her trunk she invested in knitted
silk jacket. such MS five out OF every
ten OF the younger women students
wore.
Her foather-trimmed best hat that
she had worn with her from Holmes
Center abdcated In favor of a simple
straw sailor that proved immensely
becoming worn over her soft brown
edrls and shading her truly lovely blue
eyes.
All of which might not have proved
so difficult TO tell George had II not
been in order To buy the knitted silk
jacket, the simple sailor which had a
fairly high price attached to II In spite
of its simplicity, and the little silk
afternoon dress and white pumps and
satin slippers. she had dipped into
that little hoard and actually had
spent enough of II TO mean possibly
the sacrifice Of that parlor suit she
had been planning on. That made II
seem almost treachery to George.
Besides George. dear, trusting
George, had liked her ALWAYS just ms
she was. lie would not r"-ierstand.
The day after her transformation
Gladys did not see George. lie was
working late that night and had no
spare afternoon hours.
She was glad that there was no In
tervlew because until she became
used TO the new sltuation-thnt of
wearing smart city clothes instead OF
aI,, al sha 90
she would show her self-coasclous-
ness.
OF course she would not wear the
new city clothes when she saw him.
So when the next day they met for an
hour together toward the close of
fine summer afternoon Gladys was ar
rayed In her Holmes Center getup.
IL had been only two days before
that she discarded II, yet II seemed
not too long TO her, and she hesltated
to look at herself IN the glass. She
did not want to know how she had
looked. She was sitting on bench in
one of the city parks where she and
George had arranged TO meet.
First she was conscious Of her own
awkward appearance. Then she
looked up TO see George approach her.
Could that be her George? she won
dered. Before she had never noticed
how badly his suit had fitted, nor had
she realized how impossibly his shoes
were shaped. He wore his hat at an
uncitifed angle.
She was tempted TO pull II into a
| better position. George must have
seen her look of disappointment, for
he could not conceal his emharrass-
ment. He sat beside her on the bench
Then wave of contrition came over
Gladys. He looked tired aud anxious.
He had been working hard, very hard,
and 1t was all for her.
Gladys could not express the con-
triton she felt. for she did not want
George even to know the cause of 1t.
They tried TO talk or their work, but
it was so widely diverse that they
seemed not to interest each other. The
affairs of Holmes Center We're too re-
mote to be interesting.
And the worst of 1t was that when
Gladys returned TO her dormltsTy
room and had again donned her city
clothes she felt something almost akin
TO contempt for the clothes of her
George. Could it be contempt for
George?
Then feeling of homeslckness came
over her. She wished she had never
come to the city to experience its
temptations, and this was followed by
great longing-a longing to renain
always In the city, never to go back
TO the clothes OF Holmes Center.
There was II faculty reception that
evening-the first opportunity she had
had TO meet out of class the men and
women from whom she was receiving
instruction. TO go to this reception
and enter into the festivlty II offered
would be TO forg0 at least for few
hours the disturbing emotions of the
afternoon.
Gladys found herself that evenlng
noticing the clothes the men wore and
| the way they wore them. And always
there was the iIs3ge of George in his
bagglng suit, out-of-date shoes and
1 bhH'S HpiHNh W nut IL 6lt nuu
never known him, There was no
doubt OF the fact that the young In
structOr who was talking 10 her was
interested 'n her. He had already
asked to c. TO zee her at the dormi-
tory.
Then among the faces Gladys caught
glimpse of one that could be no ones
but Georges. In a few minutes moe
he had come up TO her. The interest
ed professor had Withdrawn OF his
own accord, and they were standing
there in n quiet corner Of the college
gymnasium.
"Georgel"
"Gladysl"
There was infinite relief In the tone
of each. Neither had known tina. the
other was coming. But now the truth
was known, and explanations were al
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