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Show A. QUESTION OF INFERENCE. Substitute Teacher Asked for Point of Information. It was at tho summor school for tencherB. Tho professor of sociology was young and good-looking, also ho was lecturing. At tho end of the first form snt tho substitute teacher. Sho, too, was young and her gown of shlmmery stuff wns I immensely becoming to her. Of tho latter fact tho Bubstituto teacher was entirely awaro, so sho sat with down-"cast down-"cast oyrtsnniJ.soonioi domurnlyjiincon-' domurnlyjiincon-' BClOUH whon-tlie)roi6ssor'of sociology! addressed somo of his most brilliant, romarks directly to herself. Tho professor of sociology was speaking of marrlago; but something his youth perhaps, or tho subtlo Influence In-fluence of tho BUinmor weather had lightened tho grnvlty of his thorao in such wiso that ho handled It playfully, and half rovercntly, half humorously, ho quoted tho final sentences of tho ceremony used by tho church. HIb voice was pleasant, tho Inst wordB of tho, well-known' formula falling molll-fluously molll-fluously from his lips. As ho endod, ho turned again with n smile and a bow to tho substltuto teacher. "Thoro!" ho Bald Impressively. "See how easily you aro glvou awuy?" Tho substltuto teacher raised her Bhy oyes. "AmI am I to Infer," sho hesitated Innocently, "that tho gentlo-man gentlo-man In tho caso has boon sold?" Tho Sunday Magazine |