The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-29
GdoOn PlaniSh
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i Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Kinniklnick College, for half. past three, when the bank would be closed to the public = caste to which he still referred to ''tae hoI polloi,"
 Mir. w. 0. pridmore sat near the entrance to the bank, in a compart- ment railed with golden oak and of the general size of a pigpen. Ans as he thought that Professor Planish was going to marry his widowed daughter, Teckla, and as, he con- sldered Professor Planish to be the most book-read and eloquent young man that he knew, yet with sound principles about the Republican Party and with a decent salary, he rose from his steel desk - the look of which gave money borrowers headache = he held out his shaky hand, and cried, 'Well, welll Teckla and>i missed you, Gideon. You're Q sight for sore eyesl"
 Professor planish wondered If 1t really would take as much aS ten years for him to become president of the college.
 LIE was dumping back to Admin H istration Hall, his beard bright in the September sun, With selfcon- fidence and determination to make an impression on the new regime, he walked boldly into the green carpeted, portrait-fretted anteroom to the presidents oface.
 He was . full professor; he was kept waiting only five minutes and admitted to the fervid cordialtty Of the Rev. Dr. T. Austin Bull, the new president of Kinnikinick.
 He greeted Professor Planish in the best of glee- -club tenors:
 Thank you for coming to call so early, Professor, but I'm not sure but that I should have called on you. I'm SO new to this job that I Imagine I'll have to lean heavily on your experience.
 Let's see now; three years you've been at old Kinnikinick. I can't tell you what splendid reports l get of your splendid teaching and your, uh, your splendid effect on the morale of the students. Oh, every" where. But-There Is one thing, one small detail, that I should like to take up with you--oh, more In a spirit of asking advice than of giv" ing 3t, perhaps.
 "Wiil you have Q cigar, Profess sor7 Good Now settle back in your chair, all comfy, and try and have the patience to hear me out.
 What I've centured to think about, h very tentative way, iS: I'm sure you make every effort to shelter our darling girl under-grad- uates just as much from yourself as from any other man, but have you ever given thought to the somewhat disturbing position of Q strong, young, unmarried man among so many lovely girlss"
 "Oh, yes, I've given thought to
 T imagined perhaps you had. And may I, in the most impersonal way, ask if you have any plans for get" Ging TlarTied7"
 fl can't say anything definite just ct this moment - only rash fools tempt the gods by prophecy, you know"
 How true that Isl"
 "Dut hope before long to have something very interesting to tell That's fine, that's fine. I'm very pleased, Professor"
 ITO himself, Professor Planish \ grunted, "Yeh, 1t would be In. terestlng to know who the dickens this is that I'm going to i1arryI And 1t would be interesting to Prexy if he shadowed me for the next few hours and found out Why I'm not likely to be c menace to the cute co-edSl" -
 So he tramped to the little grey widows. house where lived Tec' kia SchauFn.
 He knocked, instead of bursting in as he usually did. t would De pleasure to see her tremblingly peeping out, in hope. Shed De at home, all right; hadn't he tele- phoned her that he was backi She would never spoil the perfect art of his return. "a,
 He knocked and rang the bell, and with perfect timing, as re. hearsed in his mind, there she was, edging the door open, then throwing t wide as she whini' pered, "Oh, Cid, you're herel"
 "Me? Nol I'm in New Haven. You know .- in Connecticut"
 He closed the door behind him: to shut off the cenSorious eyes or Klnnikinick, and kissed her pro. foundiy, holding her small sraH figure to him, conscious of her nne springy back.
 "T've niiSsed you so," she was aiSkatsaN