Show w 2 why kate remained d axy single I 1 by JANE OSBORN 0 1924 blo mcclure Clure N Nawt per no newcomer in college circles of over ever passed many days daa hearing of kate dawson Daw tion for or nato kato dawson seemed to be b as much an institution of tile tho college community ns as tile discordant old bell that pooled peeled out the hour for chapel every morning or tile alio freshman cune rush every autu autumn nili i I ester lester Ilen henderson derBon saw sav kato before lie ho find heard or of tier lier re ho hod had conio collie to Clear haven as head of the department of mathematics the young younge eit 91 man who had ever held that position arnd had already lived there for four days sleeping Ble und and eating in tho the campus inn and lecturing und and studying in old dawson hall shortly utter titter twelve on tile tho fifth day lenter was going toward tho inn when lie he spied it trimly dressed young worn nn an holding it in leash tin an enormous great dano classes lind just been dismissed d and tile campus was overflowing with streams of young students that sometimes I 1 caine six and eight abream t lester henderson wag looking with III concealed admiration at the young woman no to would not havo have that lie ad infred her lie ho simply admired tier her typo type very neatly tailored with clothes 11 little mannish without being in tho the least masculine within n few feet of the oncoming tromm of students pouring out of the campus onto tho the main road beyond the alio girl turned aside silo shu tugged tagged on tho the leash against tile weight of tho the dog that apparently wanted to encounter tho the students this way don she was saying to tho the dog there come nil the students wo we dont want to pass them come don come and tho the well bred dog torn between ills his desire for adventure and his desire to to do his mistress bidding choso chose tho the latter fatter course so kato dawson went koivu the highway and lester lastor Henders sauntered on toward tho the campus inn the next dily day tit at almost precisely the lonmo time lester encountered the samo attractive young woman fin at almost precisely the samo same spot and again she urged her faithful dog clog not to malio make tier her encounter the students each amo lester observed that more than ono one of the students was conscious of kates hildos presence several turned to look with unfeigned admiration then lester heard of kate hato dawson from ono of ills his asso associates cintes find discovered that silo she was was none other than the girl with tho the great dane 1 I suppose so call lier her a collego college widow tho the other professor was saying you vou see bee dawson hall where your classroom and offices aro located aris given by tier her grandfather the daw sons pons helped found tho the college and until quite recently there have always been dadona dawsons in the student body I 1 fancy there Is quite a bit of money still in tho the family kato dawson has ocen been brought up here within a stones throw of tile campus A good looking sort of woman and sho sho eho never married suggested lester Tt tants ints funny silo she looks like alko tile tho kind of girl men would admire tile other professor laughed ill say silo she Is lie ho said so long ns as kate dawson went to tho the collego dances barely a freshman ever escaped falling in love with tier her and they often continued in lovo love with tier lier till senior year but she havo have any of them now she must bo be about thirty arvery or very near there eliere that seem old to us but of course to a college student it Is getting on so kato kate go to tho the dances tiny any more though im willing to bet shed like to ashes still fond of freshmen sho she line has a way of walking down toward tho the campus with tier her dog just as tile alio boys are leaving at noon I 1 suppose in III a way it Is funny she never married it as it she had any great big Jin interest terest in life ditc music or art or anything like that but girls aro are funny that way almost everywhere lester mender ron pon went he heard somo some reference refe ronco to anto dawson X kate ate was so original origin nt it was really too bad site she lind never been willing to marry look at the men she might have married thriving lawyers doctors a novelist or two two or three boys who had inherited millions more or less others who had bad gono gone into bust ness they were werd hit all her followers in tho the days when she went to tile the college lances dances once in tier her gala gain days kate had and had nn an afternoon dancing blaso for freshmen she was twenty then they were eighteen or nineteen and they amo zamo z to the old dawson home near the campus and she taught them how to 0 dance tho the new dances of 0 course they were nil all in love lote with her and somehow it seemed nil right because nato dowson dawson had dono done it even mrs grundy seemed to approve ftp prove perfectly of everything that note dawson did and on thanksgiving day and christmas students in tile college who hai had no homo home to go to always had it a cordial invitation to spend tile tho day nt at tho the lawsons dawsons Daw sons kate hild had persuaded ded tier her widower father rind to undertake tho the good work and many a student refrained floru going to a perfectly god g od homo home on ills his noil boll days so that lie ho with a dozen moro more might go und and bosk in III th the e in much uch divided radiance rad lunce of kato hato dawson it really way funny kate lind had never married now it eventually lester met kato kate it was tit it tin nn afternoon ten tea nt at tho the house of tho the president of the college its really funny she sha never married lester was echoing to himself the comment that ull had made about tier A 4 penny for your thoughts said kato dawson looking up into the faxe of lester henderson enderson II naj nb soon boon ts as lie had in been presented you had such a quizzical expression now please tell mo me what you were puzzling about lester he II enderson tried to hl dehl 1 I really was wag wondering something lie stammered but I 1 for the world tell you what I 1 it t was s wont you sometime tell mo 1110 asked kate fit a way that was quite characteristic te of tier lier why ye yes agreed lester ill tell you if you permit mo me to become sufficiently well acquainted with you to make my iny little question not seem impertinent before kato kate left tile the presidents house silo she called out to lester leater oh air ilen ilont ont you stop in tit nt my house for tea sometime very soon you see sec I 1 want to got get very well acquainted quain ted very tory soon because I 1 want to know what made you look so 60 quizzical lester henderson enderson II was rather confused nt at having this remark broadcast across tho the presidents drawing room but those who kne itney w kato were not surprised kato kate was always quite aboveboard in lier her methods before lester had bad been it frea frequent I 1 lent caller nt at the dawson home many weeks lie ho was warned sho she will be friendly for a time said ono one of the bachelor professors but just when you well become very much interested she will begin to talk about what sho thinks a man ought to be and ought not to be and then of course co know silo she has fins grown tired of you as she lins has of tho the rest but lester noticed no such change chau goof of face he was waa encouraged in making ills declaration be because enuse said lie ho to himself nt it as is if silo been through gli this sort of tiling often enough if silo elio rejects me ill be in good coul com anny thero there must bo be a hundred undred li or more in III tile the sat samo no company bato dawson accepted lester lien hen dersons proposal propos nl without hesitation even before I 1 lot let you kiss me she said while lestor lester was kept at an distance you must tell me what you yon were thinking thIn Icing about TOO me that day we first met you were looking at mo me with such a quizzical expression you promised to tell me and now you must even it if it ft was very very uncomplimentary 11 1 I wua was wondering confessed lester with some embarrassment why it was you had never married you seem like n man hater iam I 1 am still curious to know wily why out gilt of till nil the men youve known you lieve chosen me n poor college professor we well 11 of course I 1 rather love you said bald kale frankly frnnk fril tildy ly and then besides be aldes you proposed none of the rest ever old did I 1 have nn an iden that the reason wily why a lot abt of other rather popular girls havo have never married Is because no noone one over asked them to |