Evening star., 1934-09-23
INSTALLMENT 1.

He leaped from the car to open the
gate, and again to close it. Then he
ordered his dog Shep to go back, waved gayly
to his mother who was watching from the porch
of the farm house, and turned the car down
the highway toward Hamilton and his great
adventure.
George wore no hat and the wind soon made
his thick mop of brown hair more unruly than
usual. But otherwise he was, as he would have
expr ressed it, dressed up fit to kill" He had
on a brand-new blue suit which had arrived
from the mail order house only q few days
before. George had taken his own measure
ments with the utmost care following the di-
rections IN the catalogue and the suit fit his
broad shoulders very well.
His shoes weren't exactly stylish, but they
were polished until they shone, and his white
shirt seemed positively snowy in contrast with
the dark tan Of his sunburned face He was
proud Of that costume-even of the necktie,
which was a little too tight around a neck that
had not been confined by a buttoned collar
for entire Summer.
'Get going. Gussie," he said aloud as the
roadster coughed on hill. He felt real af-
fection for Gussie. although the car had been
bought very much nd-hand, and repaired
until it was now almost homemade. He called
it Gussie after q COW which his father had
formerly owned, because he said that Gussie
was the one car that could 60 any place an old
COW could 90.
It was 23-mile drive from the farm into
hamilton, and George planned to make the
trip five days q week for the next two years.
For he had enrolled as q Junior in Hamilton
High School, after completing two years in
the district high school near the farm. He
wanted to study Law, and q diploma from the
city school would be necessary for his admis-
sion to the university which he hoped to at
tend.
But all that was still very much in the future.
It had taken . good deal Of hard work and
almost as much figuring to enable him even to
attend Hamilton High School, and it would
take q great deal more before he would be able
TO get to college But George had supreme
faith in his ability to make the grade" sooner
Or later.
Gussie performed nobly on the trip to Hamil-
ton. and deposited George in front Of the high
school with minutes to spare. After parking
the roadster he joined the throng Of boys and
girls passing into the building and followed
their lead to the big auditorium where he found
q seat.
his classmates, but George was interested in
every detail He listened intentfy while Prof
Shayne, principal Of the school, addressed the
assembled students and outlined the program
for the day. There would be assignment to
assembly rooms. followed by q series Of IS
minute class periods to get the students
quainted with their schedules, their class rooms
and their teachers.
George found himself assigned to assembly
room No. 8. which he located after considerable
wandering around the corridors. As . result,
the room was full of boys and girls when he
opened the door and walked in, and everybody
turned to look at him.
Now, George had a very thick mop of hair,
and 1t had not been cut any too recently.
Moreover, the wind produced by his trip in
Gussie had tousled 1t pretty badly As re-
sult his entrance into the assembly room was