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Show rH a ,ft. thought h'.m oH and j t-i had b-ca d-ean..r.g such wt J dreanis. I I ve given up my f ;rr.mr to too. I Tve b-cn .',-.tv'"i to picni... crawl up mount n 'ls. A w o hot i null's, an t this is the end of it:" !) threw out h-r .mail bar. is tragically. 1 ran t n.ak you marry anybody:" Why do you want me to marry?" the Prof, s.-or s fa"? was graver than she had evr s.di it. 'T..-cau-e 1 do." she said. "R-cau-se I want you to be happy." "lio the ctr'.a knuw V h asked. N V indign: :: "it as my own nlin I never told a soul." There wan a won'l-rful ten.lerne j In the man ryes as he retarj.-.l this ; apoilej clniJ of ha: pint-,4- She u o j your. so t n l.-rly nurture.l. j i comtiiitt- 1 '.he f"Hy cf fa'.'.- i l:H ill love iit h.l earii.-r date." the j Professor a p-.u.-tiliotia In bU t-pee.-h. -It was folly, but folly is sometimes t!i;ne" The Professor's calm vo:c act'iaKy trem!'.e.l. And I il:.'.nt l.i.ve anythms to do with It." tiie cirl nai'l reuretlully. You ha 1 e -i ihms" to do w ita It. : I da!ici-.l att. u lai.' e on them, I didn't I care a rap for t!:-m but I saw U pl.a.se,l you. I-or.i." the 1'rofessot roati. .1. what foo'.s men are: Yoo wanted me to marry oi.e of them, and I mauled" F'.hle for him to follow the train of her thoc.clit. It is s.a'.d that every bachelor is secrerly watched by son-.-woman. Miss Peyton had known th, Professor for several summers. His I mother's cottace ra not a hundre 1 j ! yards from her own summer home, j There was a vaaue report that his r-.other's and his sisters avowed dis-I dis-I approval of matrimony had caused ' k:. tr. elve on the witnaii he loved 'Wlm?" breathless. y. "You." The trees and the landscape were cut of their normal places. There was a rushing and a roaring as of mary water in the girl's ears. -If time w.iuid heip my cause." bis voice was very far away. Time: It w as su. h an old. old fact that the Professor wanted to marry h-r-to marry little Iiorothy Peyton with all lier faults and inconsistencies. "If I were younger," the Professor said sorrow fui'.j . -Wed not boys, but wed grave and gentle men:" 'some where she hai heard these words that ran? in her brain. ., f.,t ve that The Success ct Failure. I BY SARA LINDSAY COI.KM AN". fCopyrlKht. !d. by L'ally 8-ory Tub. o I ; She waa a tiny creature. It se.-n.ied ; precocious for her to be twenty years t old; her hair curled wilfully on her j neck and brow; la the dark-laOi.-d j fray eyes, in the mocking red mouth. I a charm, rare, p -rverse. a charm that j transcended beauty lurked. 5he rode ; slowly up the mountain trail. On : every side strange flowers shone. ; mosses covered fallen logs; In the in- ; terstices of broken ro ' great pin-s grew; a stream In its seaward rush leaped and swirled over its rocky be-J. KacM year he grew more pr"occupied. more wrapped in h's stmii-s. If one might Judge from externalities, the Prufes-or seemed drifting into permanent perma-nent b.T-helorhood. Miss p ton was young, pretty. She counted her lovers by the dozen, and sho was not accustomed to have 1 he j-roi.--.-oi ....... . had not left the girl's f.Oe. saw a soft ; I color flu-h hT cheeks. ! -IMrothy. Iiorothy." the Professors hand closed over her3. his -voice was tremulously eager. Without warning the other members mem-bers of the party flocked into the quietness and sweetness of their retreat, re-treat, ihen stopped discreetly, but Daphne, the irrepressible, cried: "The. Professor is In lne w.tii Dorothy." i There was an awkward moment. And I am In love with the Profcs- ( sor." Dorothy's laaghter rang out as j amused and unconscious as a child's. Its silvery peal opened the gates of heaven a ira- Lost In a mesh of thought she was brought ba.k to the mountain tra.l , by a sharp blow on her face that dislodged dis-lodged her hat. Her st-ed, a mine, went on in spite of the desperate pull on his mouth. She felt k-rself being lifted from the saddle, her eyes stood out, ber face blanched with pain; unless un-less something stopped the mu.es eourse the low-lying limb of a tree that had caught her hair threatened to place her in a very uncomfortable position, for the party had gone on and there mas co help in shouting d.s-tance. d.s-tance. ' . . "Absalom. Absalom." a la thing TOlre called, "I am coming." an 1 d"w. the mountain path a man rar.e ru -Cing at full speed. He threw the mule back and released the g.i'l from ei,r. "Y'ou:' her plans miscarry. The- Professor's Ill-luck depressed her she believed his relatives had doomed him to un-happiness. un-happiness. She took things Into her own hands, she filled ber house w.th guests. The summer had been one round of frolic which was to terminate wltn her painful position. la radiant good humor with himself and all the world he looked up at her with laughing eyes. It mas ber fate to be seen by him at a d.sadvantage. There are people who always see one at one. be,c but the Trofesaor came on the scene when Mis. Peyton mas least desirous of spectators. Not two hours be U re she bad plunged from a roc. Into he o-lessor-s long arms and he had Uug -od id he knew she would ..! Just there so he had waited to save he a Nw bruises. The afternoon b fore when the male members of the camp-log camp-log party were fishing, she. at the en U.'.tPy othe girls who knew reputation repu-tation for such adventures, had climb ,i to the top of an apple tree, gone cut on the limb, and tossed apples to .he hungry girls, and la an euieavor the week of camp life. The Professor had Joined the party and bad thrown himself into the gay life with an abandon and a boyishness that had delighted Miss Peyton. There was a unanimous vote that the summer without him would have been a failure. He danced mutn Ilaphne. played cards with the men. Maud claimed him for golf, he rode with Irene, talked books with Isabel, rescued a half dozen girls from perilous peril-ous positions, but'iss Peyton was forced to acknowleuBc that he seemed no nearer matrimony than at the beginning be-ginning of the season. Lunih was served on the mountains 4 top. ine u4i.ui." water clcr as crystal. co,d a. lc. from the depths of a fern-shadowed spring A mountain top lunch happy faces careless laughter born of youth and 'joyousness, a background of mightv hills clothed to their crests ln verdure, golden sunshine, the country coun-try below spread out in the beauty of blue misty distance, mountains melting melt-ing Into mountains and receding Into dimmest distance-and over all the wide panorama, shifting shadows. After lunch Miss Peyton did not accompany ac-company the party to a distant point to see the view-she was tired. 8b. Rod. Slowly rp the Mountain. -.hrh i refused to tear, and bung in mid-air reacued by the professor. tU-es- The haughtinee. I. ber T0e w bor- of humiliation The Professor I'd the mule up Bountsln side, a breathless task- 1 allew-e. flush on ber Mia. Peyton aat erect a n cheek. It would have been The Professor found ner iu lu" depths of a very flimsy handkerchief. His consternation got the better of bis cution. and be made himself known by taking the handkerchief from the hidden face. He wa rewarded by an indignant glance under hlch b. quailed, but he sat down beside ber. -You're made my summer mlser-.hi-"' wuh a burst of righteous an-"r" an-"r" -I was sorry because you were and I thought you PIerT man doe. who rerne TouTtge- Vr. don. everything to IX TO" BUt h'V' 00 f for ment, no gratitude:" 3b. Puae4 for Zl of breath and th. Profeor rw-garded rw-garded ber helplessly. . She said every man of bis rje ""J- |
