Evening star., 1921-06-05

tho tsuminer session. The moment
ing to do something else, something
that would actually bring him five
hundred dollars. He didn't know
what II would be. But it would be
something. He would get that Ave
hundred dollars If he had to use a
strong hands. He would wiring that
Ave hundred dollars from however a
reluctant a world.
With an effort he unclenched his
hands. He didn't want Dorothy to see
that gesture. He must not let her
know how serious the situation was.
He stroked her hair gently. She
looked tragically worn. She lived
the life of a charwoman. really. She
was a servant. doing the hard ply
sical labor of the household. He put
his arm around her shoulders and
her head on his shoulder, leaned on
him.
Don't think about money" he said.
Don't think about money all sum-
mer. Forget 1t. won't you?'
"I wish you were going. too" she
from you all summer never have
been"
1--WE won't ever do it again." Trum-
bull Gannett assured her.
1888
TRUMBULL GANNETT walked
slowly back from the railway sta
tion after putting Dorothy and
Ernesta, and the twins aboard the
train for the east. He felt very much
alone. He was very tired. He wished
more than anything else that he
could have gone to Cape Cod with
Dorothy and the children. He would
like to laze away a summer on a
sunny beach. and take the twins
claiming, and sail a boat. The long
summer vacation was one of the spe-
cial privileges of the college pro-
fessor. 1t was expected partly to
make up for his small income. But
actually he couldn't afford to take q
vacation. He had always taught In
the summer session for six weeks
and spent the remaining six weeks in
the engineering laboratories at work
on his heavy-oil engine but, you
couldn't work out a heavy-ol engine
in six weeks of the year. A job like
that needed all your time-Xou need
ed towork continuously. From the
first Jorgenson was bound to beat
him.
Jorgenson was a mechanic who
had struck out for himself. started
small engine shop. built one thing
on another. He lived in overalls,
Jorgenson wasn't ANNOYED because
his dress clothes were old-fashioned
shiny, too tight. JorEenson didn't
have to wear dress clothes. Jorgen-
SON didn't lunch. at the faculty club.
He ate his lunch out~of tin bucket.
of science. freed by a decent and
certain income to devote his whole
energy to a chosen problem. taking
his real pay in the satisfaction OF
making a contribution to knowledge
to civilization. Actually he was more
likely to spend his spare hours wor-
the pursuit of knowledge. He would
be a full professor some day
But what of it! His salary had been
increased thousand dollars in siz
years. But the prices Of most things
had doubled in that time. He wal
actually getting less now than then
In the meantime he had had .twc
children. Would the salary Of . full
professor. by the time he got II. make
| 1t possible for him to send his sons
through college?
And az for honor-didn't all the
worthwhile honors r. aEyera,,.a GO tH men xs: 1s:
not the gifted Prof. Langley who hew
the first airplane, but the obscure
wright brothers. with their bicycle
shop.
Trumbull. Gannett paused, without
consciously willing to do %, in from
Of the open door OF an automobile re.
pair shop. He could never pass sucf
a shop without wishing to go in and
look around. His original ambition
had been to build motor cara. And
now he watched two men hoisting thu
engine out Of a truck and wished hi
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tear down that motor. to see just wha
lhad happened inside it. And then HI