The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-07-13

| see her fingers clasping and I'M
clasping nervously. ~ :5 #
/ "Yes, / saw him."
"Where?"
| "Over at the women's dorm.tory.
He came to see me-"
j "What about?"
Her answer came in whisper.
"Mr. Thayer."
81 see. What did he say
about Mr.. Thayer?"
."He said-he said I wasn't to see
Pat any more"
i "Why?"
"He wouldn't tell me. There's al
ways been lot Of mean talk
around the campus about Pat. He
i was better than the rest of them,
and they all hated him for being
i more of a man. And Larry knew
Of it. l never made any secret
about it,
"Then why did he suddenly come
and speak to you day before yes
terday?"
Again her cheek turned white.
Somebody had told him some
thing"
"Yes s.. ~ Jim was infinitely
patient. "Who?"
"Antoinette Peyton."
i
4 Peyton happen to pick that particu-
lar day to tell him?''
Because well, it happened this
way, Mr.. Harvey" She walked to
the window and motioned him to
join her. "You see, all the college
buildings are on hill here. Way
over yonder on that big hill is the
women's dormitory. When you
walk over there you go down the
hill beyond the Bowl and pass
through pretty little patch ofwoods.
There's a place down there all kind
of closed in-everybody knows it.
It's called the Bower and couples
| go there lots of times. It's a sort
Of college rule never to go in there
when someone else is there. ]
mean not to go in when you hear
somebody.
"Tony Peyton was coming from
the dormitory and Pat and / were
Fir there. Tony Peyton eavesdropped
and then busted right In on us. She
she gave Pat the devil
II see. -. But what business
was it Of shers?"
The face which Ivy lifted to Han
yey wasa Study in bewilderment
81 don't know r.
| Didn't she say?"
@NO. OF course l could tell that
there was something between Tony
and Pat: or, anyway, there had
been. Tony was awful sore. and
Pat was mad. He told Tony to
mind her own business and that If
she butted in on him she'd be start
ing something she couldn't stop.
Tony said he ought to be ashamed
of himself because l was such 9
kid, and he said he'd do what
what he DIN pleased"
! "And your"
| II just stood there. It seemed
like I was an outsider. hadn't
| ever seen Pat mad, and l never
thought Tony could get so sore"
"It was a real fuSS?'
! "Yes. sir. I think Tony must be
! crazy about him, and she was
jealous. Anyway. / mean she acted
| just like that"
"You didn't get any int-from
either Pat or Miss Peyton-wha1
there was or had been, between
them?"
mo, sir"
"And you think Miss Peyton tol6
your brother that he ought to d.
something about it,"
eyes. ... Larry is crazy about
her. He didn't act nice. He said II
have to quit going with Pat. ] saii
wouldn't, and he said he'd Sc,
that l did,"
Jim's eyes were half closed. Hi!
voice came in slow, disinterestet
drawl.
aAnd then he told you he was go
ing over to see Thayer, didn't hep
eyes, sir"
"That was about half past one?'
81 think So"
aHe was real sore when he lief
you, wasn't her.
She seemed startled. mot sor
enough to kill anybody. Mr.. Han
: yey. Don't you understand: LAIR,
. isn't that kind at all. Maybe b.
could have quarreled with Pat an,
had fight although
4 never have known Larry ever to d.