Show The Telegrams Telegram's Daily MR SNEED'S GRAY EYES By JANE OSBORN Cop Copyright right 1916 by McClure 1 Newspaper Newspaper News- News v paper Syndicate And nd you you and Mr Sneed are to be orl our make believe mot mother er and father and we are going going to have the time Only Vivian and I are goin going to have dinner in the dining room with you and of course you and Mr Sneed d wont won't ever run away to parties like real mothers and fathers will you Isn't it going to be perfectly dandy You mustn't say things are dandy i interrupted Hildegarde two years years older Must she Miss Peckham Youre You're her teacher and you ought not notto to fa let her talk like that I am sur Mr lr Sneed wouldn't let Billy and me meay mesay Say say ay words like that Mr Sneed is very particular added Hildegard Hildegarde w with th a toss of her curls I r wouldn't have your Mr Sneed for fora a teacher acher so so there smarty Hes He's got horrid gray eyes and my teacher has pretty blue eyes You are pretty arent aren't you ou Miss Peckham Madge Peckham laughed and told her admiring young charge that gray grayeyes grayeyes grayeyes eyes were as nice as blue ones and that she was sure that Mr Sneed was a avery avery avery I very good teacher teather and ought not to be criticised Madge was a teacher at the most fashionable school in the suburban suburb suburb- an community where the home of the newly rich was located and incidentally she was th the favorite and best beloved teacher of twelve- twelve year old Vivian who had been ent sent to school because of her Inability to keep p peace ace with tho the gray eyed Mr Sneed resident tutor of the es establishment es- es E Easter ster holidays had come and be because because because be- be cause Madge had bad ho o family to return to during the school vacation she had been glad to accept the task of returning return return- ing lag home hom with Vivian to share shar with Mr Sneed the duty of taking care of the young oung Mr and Mrs had departed the day before before be be- fore for southern climes to be gone a week and with seven automobiles and nd half a dozen horses and a score of servants at aV her beck and call Madge was about to assume the task of playIng playIng play- play Ing namma to the young Knowing the perversity of the Stone- Stone worth disposition as displayed in the admiring Vivian she might have re refuse refused refused re- re fused fuse the proposition had it not been for the hundred-dollar hundred check that had been offered as an offset for the ten days of responsibility Maybe you think that our father gave ave you too much Vivian ha had l i re remarked remarked re- re marked to the young teacher confidentially con con- but you'll earn every cent of It That Mr 11 Sneed man says th that t the he has grown ten years older since he came caine here to teach Hildegarde and Billy Madge had dined alone with the little girls and after intrusting them to the care of their maid to bo put to bed she had retraced her way to the library of which she had caught a glimpse before dl dinner ner This was partly in order to get geta a book with which to while away the hoUrs In her own room and partly to get a possible glimpse of the gray eyed Mr Sneed No doubt Madge he might have strolled into the library after having disposed of Billy whom as yet Madge had not seen From Vivians Vivian's few comments Madge had formed a distinct mental Image of the tho tutor She fancied him lean precise pre- pre else cise p pedantic and immaculate both in il appearance and in speech She was standing looking with mild astonishment astonish astonish- ment into the class covered bookcases ot of expensively bound volumes which obviously were seldom opened when she heard a muffled step on on the heavy rug behind her So you are Miss Peckham said a voice so melodious arid and d magne magnetic ic so unlike anything Madge had associated with the probable Mr Sneed that she gave a perceptible start May I introduce myself We shall shan have to see more or less of each other for ten days I I- hope we shall get on famously I 1 am very ery gla glad to meet you O Mr Sneed said Madge making a rapid visual survey of the athletic young man before her and before many minutes minutes' min miri- utes utes' had lad p passed she found herself talking easily with the young tutor it really quite a alark lark to be here she laughed I have never been in such a wOl wonderful house before It Is quite quite like like a fairy tale though no doubt we we shall shan have o our r hands full I J a am aA A sure lre Vivian Vivia will b docile enough but hut Hildegarde dO does not It mo ine me n ff I suppose BilI Billy 1 is terr terror T you 13 see f fth th that h he h T heen put plit ut to b bed bd d' d before yott came down Th The h next eit morning l r ing I e e- e I to the breakfast room at S 8 she found her charges already aheady at break break- fast The young tutor seated at the head of the table had waited till she arrived and on her app appearance arance rose roseand roseand roseand and remained standing till the teacher took her seat This amid muffled gig giggles giggles gig gig- from the little girls who cast sidelong glances at each other through breakfast Billy is the tile limit put in Vivian with a knowing ng glance at Hildegarde It is Just dreadful when he is at meals Im I'm glad Mr Sr Sneed eed made him have breakfast upstairs I am quite sure I shall be great friends friends' with that bad Billy brother of yours said Madge although secretly she was glad that the complications of the first morning had not been in increased increased In- In creased creased- by the by-the the addition of Billy That first of the Easter holidays was one of those days that seem like the longest and the shortest of a lifetime It was long In in tIe richness of the experiences experiences experiences' ex ex- j Jt it t contained and short ii in t thre rapidity with which it slipped by At t Mr Sneed's suggestion there was was a morning horseback ride in the mild mUd spring spring- air lunch in the sun parlor and an afternoon spent first at music in the music room when Madge and andI her little charges played for the he entertainment enter enter- of th the tutor and later hours hurs sp spent nt in the library when Madge 1 quite surprised herself with her temerity in reading selections from her favorite writers After the girls had gone to bed i Madge made her way down to the library this time because the tutor had made her promise to meet him there when they parted at dinner the tile children been wonderful wonder wonder- ful she said as soon as they had taken their places before th the embers of the low burning fire tire on the hearth Madge had changed her simple navy blue day dress for an an n equally simple evening frock of white that added a hundredfold to her charms In that wonderful day she had become well acquainted with the tutor and she even wanted him to admire her It didn't seem seem at all presumptuous but simply as the culmination of a wonderful experience when the tile tutor tuto told her that her that she wa was wag the loveliest woman woman he heX had ever known and th that t the tile day clay with her had been the most beautiful in his life And it Is so 80 strange s she he was sa sayIng saying say say- ing as they sat there in the glow of f the embers el I had such a distinct impression of what Mr Sneed would be like I thought he would have gray grayeyes grayeyes grayeyes eyes but not at all the kind of grayeyes gray grayeyes grayeyes eyes that you have haveIt have have- It was because I had grayeyes that you was Mr 11 Sneed then The funny part of it is that I l' l lam am not Sneed need at all all Who ho are you then she a asked ked i Jn amazement I am that very b bad l boy Billy Bully whom you told us you were quite s sure re you should like You see I am really Vivians Vivian's brother But Mr Sneed is iR Billys Billy's tutor In Interposed Interposed Interposed In- In the mystified girl Jirl Yes he bc is You see I cut college to togo togo togo go in business with my father and now that hes he's made his pile I I want to go goback goback goback back and study law and Sneed Is helpIng help- help Ing hig with the examinations examinations But when Vivian the rascal told me that the tile te teacher cher was very pretty I Just thought Id I'd give Sn Sneed ed a vacation and stay and stay home with ny my sisters Instead Il I knew he be didn't appreciate the pretty teacher half so much as I should I never thought of pretending that I T was Sneed till you suggested the deception and of course the youngsters were delighted delight delight- ed to help the game along That is probably why th they y have behaved delight I sowell so sowell well iveli today |