Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1926-06-25
What the Dummy
Did for Her
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By SIDNEY BLAIR

TT WAS Corinne who thought of 1t,
L when Miss Eaton refused to let the
girls go to the Harvard-Yale game,
after Corinne's brother had written
and asked her and her roommate to
come.
Mother would chaperon us, and
we'd have a gorgeous time" she had
urged, but Miss Eaton had been Arm.
mot with the monthly tests just
ahead" she had insisted. You're
only seventeen, and therell be plenty
of football games for you TO go to
when you've finished boarding school,"
Corlnne stormed about her room,
while Amelia, her roommate, wept
on the window seat and said she'd
leave school.
"She has lots of good times, no
tice," Amelia declared. shes hav-
ing a dinner party tonight, with peo-
pie up from town-she doesn't care
what we do except study. I'd just
like to get event I'd just like to"
Corinne didn't care particularly
about getting even with Miss Eaton,
but she did hate being pinned down
to the routine of the school, with
never any excitement. She went over
to the window seat, and looked down
at the campus, five stories below-she
and Amelia had a room In the tower.
Two men were strolling across the
campus with Miss Eaton, nice look
ing men, too nice for school prin-
cipal to have In tow, she told herself,
and too young. Then, suddenly, In
spiration came to her.
"Amella--quiek Give me some
safety plnsw She caught up three
pillows from the couch and began pin
ming them together, using small one
at the top. Her own tam-o-shanter
went on It, and dress from the
closet followed.
"This," she announced to the be-
wildered Amelia, us Charlotte. She's
going to be the victim Of tragedy.
She's going to fall out Of the window,
In just about five seconds, when Miss
Eaton and those men turn the curve
In the path and come back this way,
She'll sit on the window seat with
us, and fall out, and We'll lean out
and scream Charlotte Charlotte =
And the men will run across that
newly-plowed ground where the ath-
letic field is going to be, and with
any luck one of them will step into
one of those holes that got filed with
water during the rain yesterday-and
help me ~
"Now-noww whispered Corinne
tiercely. And Charlotte went hurting
through the air, falling straight down,
lying limp and fiat near the building
Miss Eaton shrank back and COW
cred her eyes with her hands. One
OF the men stood rooted to the spot
But the Other-he was a hero after
Corlnne's own heart
He dashed across the newly-plowed
ground, sinking almost to his knees In
It. but plungng bravely on neverthe-
less. He went into not one of the
water-hlled holes, but two. And he
reached Charlotte's side.
For moment he stood looking
down, as II he could not bear to know
the worst Then he bent and slowly,
tenderly, turned her over.
And from above his head came
laughter, laughter that was making
Corinnes sides ache, that sent Amelia
rolling on the floor with tears I'm her
eyes He stared up at them for an
instant, then turned and strobe back
to the path.
Miss Eaton never did ask who had
played the Joke, and Corinne didn't
tell her until just before commence
ment, the following June. One more
scoldlng wouldn't matter then
The following autumn she made her
debut, and parties came thick and
fast. Her winter was gay, gorgeous
one. one night, at dinner party,
she heard a man further down the
long table say something very earnest
ly to n man near her.
There's only one girl In the world
I've ever really wanted to meet" he
declared "She made me madden
than anybody else ever has, and she
also gave me something to laugh at
that has amused me ever since"
"What on earth did she dor tho
man near COrinne asked.
And then COrinnc, flushing to her
ears as the tale went on, heard about
the day OF Charlotte's fall heard the
tory in detail, from the lips Of the
man who had been the victim Of the
joke.
She went to him later In the eve
ming.
"Fm the girl who did IT," she said
THE girl who dumped the dummy
out Of the window at Miss EatOn's, ]
mean And ] want to apologize.
was such n kid didn't realize then
what terrible thing It was to do.
why when you looked down at her
there on the ground"
"Tll never forget IT," he declared.
ut certainly took the wind out Of
my sails. could have--well, when
I looked up and saw you laughing,
told an that I'd get even with you
some d'r but later, when ] was so
amused oYcr It, wanted to meet you
and thnnk you"
They laughed together over Char
lotte. IN the days following, they
laughed together over many things,
for Stewart Howe became one Of
CorInne's most devoted suitors In
the spring he asked her TO marry him
"You'N have to-" he told her, "as
atonemcni for ma ..2 L impossible to
be interested IN ass Jther girl. This
is my way Of "e oven with you"
an DO it.' answered, "and
thank 'Clarlolte' Tor bringing me The