Hyder weekly herald., 1933-07-08
The Distinguished d
 Guest
By JANE OSBORN
@. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.
 WNU Service

him that have had engine trouble but that will be at the hotel in a half hour. Tell him that he may save time if he Is waiting outside Then won't have to stop 10 lock the car and get out and search for him. This Is Miss Mathers speaking. Mir. Brown will understand"
 Dorothy Mathers was telephoning from the garage in a little village half way between Mardon college and the bustling city of New Kent. She had still twenty miles to go. But with lev el road and little traffic she hoped to get her distinguished passenger back to college in time for the lecture which was slated to begin at half-past three. Ridley Brown was . renowned phi losopher who had been engaged to lee ture at Mardon college on the impress sions of America, and Dorothy Math- CTS was the niece of the college pres ident who had been sent by her uncle to fetch the distinguished savant from the hotel at New Kent.
 Dorothy arrived before the impress sive entrance of the hotel in New Kent exactly at the expiration of the half hour. A young man with smart suit case beckoned as she opened the door of the sedan.
 'I'll put my case in there,' said the young man. But If may I'll sit in front with you"
 By all means" agreed Dorothy. "I'm Dorothy Mathers, Doctor Math- ers' niece. How do you do, MT. Brown? She took a hand from the wheel long enough for quick hand shake and then started off as rapidly as she dared. Once in the clearer stretches of the country-headed to- ward Marden-Dorothy told Mir. Brown that she hoped he had not been wait ing long. Indeed not, he said. In fact, he had just arrived.
 But the jamboree comes off at half past three," said Dorothy.
 "Half-past three?' questioned MT. Brown. "Why, thought it was after dinner-eight or halfpast. I've got evening clothes. I cant go through with 1t in the things I have on."
 I'd like to know why not:' assured Dorothy, and then they drove on in silence.
 T had no idea you would be like this," was the next remark from the distinguished guest.
 Dorothy giggled. "I didn't know you had ever heard of me-"
 
 Mir. Brown, and Dorothy felt that he was becoming rather absurd.
 For awhile they said nothing. Some how 1t seemed as if they talked at cross purposes. Then MT. Brown asked whether they would go right to the church, and Dorothy said they would l go right to the chapel, if that was what he meant.
 And as they drew nearer to the col lege chapel where the lecture was to | be held Mir. Brown grew more and ! more perplexed. Dorothy led him into the small room behind the platform. A much distraught looking college president met them there. And seeing Dorothy's companion he looked more distraught than ever.
 But word just came that Mir. Brown couldn't be here" he said. And the chapel is packed now. Mir. Browns mother-in-law has passed away"
 My other-in-law-passed away, stammered the Mir. Brown present, and then somehow explanations fol. lowed. The Mir. Brown present had come from the East to be best man for friend. He had been told that the girl who was to be maid of honor whose name he had fOrgotten-would meet him at the hotel and drive him out to Brookdale, where the bride lived.
 But what shall we do?" the distract ed president asked. "The students are waiting for lecture. If we had known before we might have got substitute But if is so late"
 T made a speech last week." suggest ed Donald Brown. II had an engi neering job in Africa-had chance