Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-10-22
TRIXIE'S STORY
BY AGNES G. BRoeAN
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Copyright. 1920. Western Newspaper Unlon.)
sat on the doorstep waiting for
our guests to arrive, and l was not
in an enviable mood, can tell you.
My family had left the welcoming of
the dean and professor in fathers uni
versity to me. And after living with
father all my young life, and knowing
his absorption to studiOus thought
just when you want to talk to him
about something else-or need shoes,
maybe, and don't dare breach the dis
turbing subject-well, after living with
father, who is also a professor, natu-
rally | hate all others. And so ought
Leila but she doesn't. Leila is my
older sister; father called us char
acters out of books and l am Beatrix
But can get away from that by
being Trixie. Leila can't She just
has to stay pOetical all the time, but
1t sort of suits her. Only of late,
she's been too dreamy for anything,
Almost as bad as father, When l
ask a question Leila usually comes
to, with a start, as if she'd been
off to the North Pole or some place
in her thoughts. She attends fathers
university. I'm not old enough yet,
thank goodness And after all her
experience in a professors household,
Leila started right in having a pro-
lessor come after her evenings to
take her places. And you never can
tell when you get to going about with
a person but that you may marry
him even if he's professor. never
saw Professor Bliss.
l knew that she had gone twice
to lectures with the DEAN but | never
dreamed that mere intellectually"
could so win over my sister. This
was the first time that father had
invited the men to dinner Father
was to be detained at the university,
and Leila, coming downstairs pretty
and flushed at the last moment, told
me that she must hurry away to see
about some little fancy cakes which
had not come, and would l please
make it pleasant for the dean and
professor when they arrived. And
as | sat sCOwling down the path,
tall, nice looking man came walking
up it, and changed my frown to a
smile. How do you do?" l greeted,
II am Trixe Burrows. Won't you
sit DOWN." The nice looking man did
sit down on the step beside me.
Where" he asked, with unhattering
prOmptneSs-"is your sister, ooh
she'll be back in a little WHILE" I
told him, but if l were you,
wouldn't be so terribly keen about
her. It's no use; she likes the dean
And when Leila likes a person even
a dry old dean, you can't change her"
The nice man stared.
Good heaven!" he exclaimed,
chow do you know that?"
"She told me-" l went on calmly.
If Leila is my sister, she has caused
quite a few young men misery, and
liked this Professor Bliss right
away, and wanted him to know just
where he stood.
"She told yOu-that she liked-the
dean?" he repeated slowly; it seemed
he couldn't get over it.
"She said" ! breathlessly answered,
that the dean was the finest man
In the world, but he Just wouldn't
go with her--pay her attention, you
Professor Bliss-would
keep on doing it. How Leila can care
for a tiresOme DEAN" added to COM
fort him, "is more than l can see.'
Perhaps" the man replied, "the
dean may have felt that way about
t. himself"
"Where did you say your sister had
gomez" he asked. Il might run my
car out and bring her back" So l
told him; and right on his departing
heels, as it were, another young man
In white flannel suit came up the
walk. He bowed.
81 am Harry Bliss" the white
suited man announced, land I'm sure
from the resemblance to your sister
hat you must be Miss Beatrix. Is
Miss Leila at hOme?" l sat there and
stared at him.
Not Professor Blissr asked
weakly. you couldn't be him?"
81 have the courage to be-" the
young man calmly replied, and he sat
Town on the step where that other
Professor Bliss had been.
what" l asked suddenly does
Dean Stanford look like-aside from
he grazing hair at the temples?"
This young man laughed
aside from the slightly grazing
lair" he replied "the dean has
hick quantity brushed straight back
rom a smooth forehead He has
ray. humorous eyes, which neverthe-
ess can glance keenly. He is tall,
,OOd looking, likewise rather young"
HE was here" 1 whispered. 81