Evening star., 1923-03-04
Father Remarked That 1t Wasn't a
Very Good Lesson for Her That 1t
Should Have Turned Out That Way.

pered. Capitol City superintendent
come for teachers"
"Where"
"There-half way down-right-hand
side
He looked just as Marcia would
have expected him to look-heavy,
distinguished, gray-haired, with a
Van Dyke beard. She sat down be-
hind him and whispered to his broad
back a foolish little jargon:
"Eeny meeny miny mo.
Please, kind sir. choose me to CO."
Across the aisle from the great man
sat Mrs. Hastings, the college doctors
wife. A strange young man was with
her From occasional glimpses of his
goodlooking profile, Marcia decided
that he bore faint resemblance to
Mrs. Hastings. There was something
about him she liked, his square jaw
md alert manner and distinct air
If sophistication that none. Of the COL
eye boys had yet acquired.
The car stopped at the entrance to
he campus and let out its load. AS
Marcia was about to pass Mrs. Hast
| ings and the strange young man, the
former said, "Oh. Miss Mason. are you
| In a hurry" AS there was merely
| small matter of an English literature
class due then. Miss Mason assured
Mrs Hastings she was not at all in
| haste.
Gould you show my brother around
| a little? My brother. Mr.. Wheeler,
Miss Mason. I would go with
| him myself. but I told Hannah IL the
| baby needed me. to put red cloth in
| the window, and there II is" She
| pointed excitedly to her home across
| from the campus. She was breath
] less, and anxious to get away.
Maybe the baby has only Joined the
bolsheviki," her brother suggested.
| Marcia laughed. She liked him. his
| keen brown eyes and the sudden hu-
morous lift to the mouth that she had
| thought SO stern.
you can see for yourself he's not
married or he wouldn't be SO fiippant
over a serious matter Mrs. Hastings
| called to Marcia. SHOW him the new
amphitheater-andS Science Halr'-she
was already half way across the
street-"and the new dormitory and
the training school,
my sister," Mr.. Wheeler said.
| missed her calling. She would have
made an excellent major general or
! park policeman.
| GARCIA laughed again. She still
| lNl liked him. Mr. Wheeler looked
/ I'd
wore an immaculate white suit with
an audaciously green silk sweater
! and cap The V-shaped neck Of her
| blouse set off the lovely contour of
her face. BY way of completing a
very satisfactory picture there was
bunch of dewy-sweet violets in her
belt.
DO you happen by any chance"
Mr.. Wheeler asked, ito be the Miss
Mason who is Keith Baldridge's
fancee?"
NO, indeed" Miss Mason said,
more emphatically than was neces-
sary, for it wasn't at all disgraceful
| to be engaged to Keith Baldridge.
That's my sister Katherine. I'm
Marcia And you know keith?'
| Like David knew Jonathan.
| They crossed the green s!oping cam
pus sweet-smelling from its recent
moving. There was some conversa-
ton relative to their mutual interest
in Keith Baldridge, and then Marcia
said glibly:
| You see before you the new
| Science Hall. 1t is thirty seven
stories high, mile square and cost
seventy million dollars. The roof of
the new dormitory may be seen
| through the trees. Out beyond the
domestic science building is the am
phitheater and beyond the amphi-
theater-iies Italy"
They had come to a little rustic
bridge across a miniature creek
Neither one made move to walk on
In fact, to be explicit, they sat down
on the low railing.
"As for the training school" Mar
cia continued II wouldn't voluntarily
take you there. It's the place where
you abandon hope all ye who enter
here"
You teach thereo'
| Il do" She looked at her wrist
watch "And in fifty minutes I'm to
teach before the superintendent of the
Capitol City schools, if haven't died
of fright. He was on the car. Did
you see hm-a big husky Vandyker?"
Mr.. Wheeler had noticed him.
Il want to make a professional hit
with him." Marcia went on confident
tally. "Ive simply got to teach in
! Capitol City next year. ] love city.
I want to walk in the crowds and eat
at tearooms. l want to go to the
theater and sit in a box
| Mr. Wheeler looked judicially. ap-
praisingly, at her. "I don't believe.
he said soberly, "it would injure the
looks of the box
They both laughed. Marcia was en-
joying herself immensely. He was
like that for the whole hour they were
together keen, clever, interesting. In
comparison with him all the home
boys and college boys of her numer-
Gus friendships faded quietly into a
blurred masculine background. In
the light of his clever repartee Mar
cia reveled. To his questioning she
told him a great deal about herself
She described faculty members to the
last comic detail. Mr.. Wheeler en-
joyed it. apparently, SO she made fun
of the training school for his benefit
She spared no one. She mocked the
artificial manners of the studen,
teachers and initiated the head of the
department. His hearty. virile laugh
was ample payment for her pains.
1t lacked seven minutes Of the hour
Marcia slipped down from the bridge