Year: 1869

on the young man.


"YOu see" she continued, "that if
! take the six o'clock train for Baltimore,
| will get there about ten, and l can sta.
with Mrs. Sinclair tonight The passen
ger cars will take me right past her door
and father will send you the money"


"Oh, don't mention that" said Cyrus
who looked exactly as if he was returnin!
from the grave of pair of twins. ''Bu
Il haven't think not, at lcast-but tina
need make no difference-I'll just step ou
and get it. Oh, I'm very glad indeed-n,
trouble at all-very glad you came to me
Just make yourself comfortable here for
few minutes. There's pipe-I mean there
some books perhaps you would like t,
look at I'll be back directly. No trouble
| at ALL


So off went Cyrus, with his hat on hint
| part before AS for Miss T amy Birch
She first wished she hadn't come Bu
then she thought that she couldn't help il
for she had no other place to go to. Blu
she thought Of course he'd have none,
enough for that "What a pity abou
those eggs-just as black as a crisp! Wha
a funny way of living! wonder if III
calls these things clean. He ought to hav
somebody to wash his cups and plates TO
him; but suppose it wouldn't be bache
lor's hall if he didn't do it himself
All those books are full of horrit
bones, expect; I'm sure | don't want t.
| look at them. l should think he die
nothing but smoke; pipes every where.
wish he'd hurry back. Why, it's 81,
o'clock now! Oh, that clock don't 60
declare, it quite frightened me. Why
| don't he have his clock wound up?"
With thoughts like these Miss Fanny
beguiled part of the time that she wa:
obliged to wait for Cyrus; but at length
tiring of examining the room, she ventured
to take up a book, which fortunately
proved to be an odd volume of Macaulay
and so she forgot the world in the fortunes
of William of Orange until Cyrus re
turned


That poor young man had "a hard time
of it. On reaching the street he stood tOl
moment in doubt, and then hurried tc
William Heiskilrs boarding house, to try
and borrow ten dollars. He knew that
five would pay Miss Birch's passage
through to her fathers house but he could
not offer her less than ten. Heiskill was
out. Then quick run round to Walnut
street revealed the fact that Seymour had
"gone out walking, Sir, with Mr. Heis-
OSTuS kUcW tudt tncTc WAS Dut
little chance of finding any of his student
friends at home on such a fine afternoon
but still he hurried down to- Spruce street,
to see if by chance little Myles was trying
to make up for lost time by trifle of
study But Myles, if he was engaged in
any work of selfbeneft, was not doing it
at home


"Confound it," said Cyrus. "I'll try
pious Arnold"


"PiOus Arnold was so called, not on
account of any particular religious ten
dency he exhibited, but simply because he
attended lectures regularly and studied
hard in the mean time, refusing all tempta-
tions in the way of card parties, eXcur-
sions, or other diversions of the students.


"Pious" was at home, but was very
sorry he couldn't lend Cyrus dollar. He
had (althOugh he didn't say so) twenty
seven dollars in little black box i'm his
his landlady at the end of the month, and
in declining to part with any of it he did
perfectly right, for it is very doubtful if he
would have had it back in time to main
tain his reputation as the best.paying stu
dent in Jefferson College.


Poor Cyrus was dumbfOunded. He





apply. One of the professors, with whom
he had previous acquaintance through
his father, might have helped him out
but he lived over in West Philadelphia,
and there was no time to go to him. 1t
was now striking five, and the train start
ed at six. He had nothing to sell. He
had "lent" his watch to help pay for a
walnut book case that was one of the re-
of ha haf Al
nothing else on which, at such short no.
tice, he could raise dollar. He stopped,
on his way back from Arnold's, again at
Heiskill's boarding house but of course
he had not returned. What, in the name
of every thing that was absurd, ,cas he to
do? After some ten minutes offruitless beat
ing of his brains, he came to the cOnclu-
sion that he must go back and tell his
shameful story, for if Miss Birch had any
other way of managing this difficulty, it
was time she was about it. So he went
home and up to his room.


Miss Fanny rose, but the moment she
saw him she knew that he had not got the
money; and so there was no necessity of
his telling the story of his shame and
poverty. She had so much pity for his
manifest mbarrassmentandd dOwnhearted-
ness that she said laughingly,


"There, you haven't got the money.
All you students spend every cent your
fathers send you as soon as it comes, and
SO you couldn't borrow any But it don't
make any difference. l have no doubt
but that it will all come out right. Such
things always do"


THAT may be-" said Cyrus; "but |
don't see how it is to come out right. You
might go to hotel and send home for
money"


Wouldn't they make me pay anything
as soon as l got there ?" she asked.


mot if you travel like a person who
looks as if she had money-with plenty of
trunks and things"


But l haven't got any trunks; they are
all sent on by express"


Oh, as for that" said Cyrus, brighten
trunk"


This method of gaining credit seemed
SO funny to both of them that thew laughed
as heartily as if there was no such troublc nc
money in the world. Miss Fanny de-
clared, however, that she would not mi
Mr.. Durham to all that bother but CYRUS
assured her that it was no trouble or in
convenience in the least to him.


"In fact, said he, it's splendid idea
Just think of it Why, / can make money
out of you. / have a trunk with books
and things that have packed up to take
home for the vacation, and | should have
to send it by express. Now you can take
it right on for me, and it will go as your
baggage, and will cost neither of us any
thing. What do you think of that idea ?


Perfectly splendidr cried Miss Fanny
"And now how will get to the hotel with
my baggage?"


"Oh, will arrange that" said Cyrus