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arm grasp braoe up talc boy thundered the deep voloe of sandy martin who but for donalds own coodrecord would have been first honor man and tell us where do we go from here you should know lasts see you are president of our natio onapter retiring football captain crack tennis player class president first honor man and general high mogul of the campus w expect aomethmc big of you we oanl gat any jobs and we dont know what to do next oh hack wlubav a job interrupt ed ted anderson a business administra tion creduat who had joined the group bee been riding the grary train too longto get off now sandy flushed with embarrassment as ha oaught the white look of misery that flashed over donalds face but the neat instant donald managed the generous cmo be had seen at once that there was no malic in teds remark people had been eo wonderfully kind and help ful to htm as he had gone through school that no wonder it looked like a gravy train ted laughed and caught donald by the arm just a figure of speech old man he aatd and im partly jealous because x didnt qualify by this time the men had reached the atreet and were pushing and shoring each other as boisterously as u they were freshmen instead of graduates as a low blue roadster drew in to the curb all was quiet and dignity again the horn honked and donald turned at once toward the car with ted- clowntshly mocking the eager look on his race oh said ted its for you and i thought she was calling for me more jealousy and another place where i cant qualify again donald managed his generous smile though it hurt to do so in the face of the turn of events juit ahead of him he knew that ted and jean the girl tn the low blue car had been neighbors and friends all of their urfs both of them had been accustomed to more luxury in one year than he had enjoyed through all the twentythree hardwork ing years of his life he had never ceased wondering that a gtrl like jean sltould have given nun these wonderful years of comradeship through the active life of his university daym how thrilled jean hsd been when hu drawtngs had come back rroen paris with marks of honor on them and how con fident they had both been that his rise to fame and fortune would brgln the very day he stepped out of the classroom now steadily and consistently or a year he had been trying to find a place to work a joo as sandy called it though he had tried the offices of every archl- i tret and engineer tn the city he had not i found an opening where h coum begin as a humble draughtsman i it was ti umlua ting baftung and dis heartening he had bruered so firmly in himself and had been so sure that hr had chosen the right work for himself and now it war crushing to be batted at the very beginning he had r ought hard for his tint job because that was going to be pie day he would tell jean ail she really meanr to him the first day of that tint job had been the day he was planning to tell the honie folks to ease the strain a bit now because he was putting his strong young shoulder to the wheel now it seemed all that he could do was limited by three narrow doors he could go home nurse bis dignity and try to and something that he felt to be worthy of his talent and training h knew his people would welcome him ahare all they had with him and give htm thetr sympathy that was not his idea of a mans development and he wa determined not to go back to add to their burdens another way had been opened to him it was u do some surveying for a rather questionable land salesman who was pro noting an addition to the city after looking into the plans donald believed the scheme was one for swindling the purchasers the third door of opportunity donald bad already definitely entered when the day before he had accepted an offer of day labor as a stonecutter on the new library building that was now going up on the university campus the wage was sow lees by half than he had been able to earn by exactly the same sort of work when he was autean and before ha had spent all hern year on his education it somehow cava him the feeling of being cheated and disillusioned donald was not ashamed of work for he realised that no fibou menial when well done somehow he had expected to start higher on the ladder rather than below the point where he had left off as a high school student to go to work as a day laborer on the campus of the very school where he had won and carried off all his fine honors ao gallantly not only gave him a letdown feeling but a sense of letting his friends down also after all that had been said to him to day he felt that tt was going to be a harder test than he had thought it could be here was jean calling for him today as honor man of his class in a really great university tomorrow at this same place he would be a soiled and weary workman going home from a day of hard labor he oould not ask or ex pect her to alllgn herself with a man who could not hope to fit into her scheme of living for years to come if ever university life he thought bitterly now did that sort of thing to unsus pecting young people levelling their aoelal and financial differences in the democracy of school life letting them learn to care for each other and then throwing them out into a- topsyturvy world where all sorts of artificial dif ferences conspired to separate them and break their hearts he wondered dully if it would take the heart out of jean as it was taking it out of him now but at least he knew that he would never be so poor a man as to trade on her sympathy like a ftash leandltlons which he faced bad raced through his mind in spite of them be greeted jeans cheery call of oct in and lets go for a spin with a friendly smile in juit a jiffy he said gaily fu get rid of these incriminating garments and then til be with you as he was just in front of the office where the caps and the gowns were to be checked in it was indeed only a jiffy before donald was back st the curb jean was waiting chatting easily with ted who leaned over the door of the car jean moved over and motioned to donald to get in and take the wheel as she smiled brightly at ted oan we give you a lift ted asked donald as he stepped on the atartcr thanks no laughed tted threes a crowd especially at a farewell party ted still wearing his mocking snule lost himself in the crowd as jean and donald drove along the street the beloved shady street donald thought of a thousand things to say but all of them seemed inadequate as a point of honor he left unsaid the 1 thought that lay nearest his heart and so they drove on in silence at length jean spoke her low husky voice showing that she apparently waa stirred out of her usual poise this is a sort of farewril party donald but not for ted we are heaving in the morning for the summer home tn maine and father is taking ted along as his secre tary he had to promote mr herbert to a managfrfhlp ia o ted acriied the lotua one yea interrupted don ted is the logical one i think i always knew tt would be ted and i am sure i wish vou both the best of everything i knew ou would frel unit wav about it don jean wmt on and that ls why i have uld you even before father has cu4duir matter with trd you know trd will be up their anyway as the anderson summrr home is next to ours ill hae u own that father wanted to oner it to you but i brgged hlni not to he doesnt think ted can quit playing long enough to be s guod secretary but 1 know ted better than most peop do and i know he has all the maktngi of a twd business man dont you think i am right don don looked down into jeans deep violetblue eyes and answered with a braver grin than ever the football field had claimed when as captain of a defeat- ed team he had congraiulated the win- nera yea you are rlgnt- joan and ij am sure ted is all thai you believe him to be jean talked more after that but soraav how it was never at all clear in donalds mind what she said nor what he said in reply he could osaly think and so it has been ted all along and her friend ship for me has been a sort of uplift work to help a dese boy through school well i am glad i kept my head and didnt go moontng around about a uukeu heail and all that sort of thing donald did know that jean asked him to write and tell her about all the won derful things he wwuld be doing he dtd remember i telling her with a stiff grin that he was starting out on some thing bag aa ha thought of tha huge blocks oa stone and tha heavy stone hamper ha would handla tha nest day though she seemed meat reluctant to part with htm ha did not ask her for n appointment that night nor did ha make any plans to see her again before the left le did not feel equal to it donald walked tha streets until sfter midnight but ha waa on time at his new work the neit morning lie waa chastened of lire and somehow tha arti ficial pride had gone out of him so that ha welcomed the hard labor as tie ac customed himself to the task he found that he was able to take up a special design course that was being offered at night through the summer it kept his ambition stimulated and lie could almost feel himself growing in power when one of- the profeisors told him of a nrlae being offered for a design of a school chapel he set to work on tt with- so much enthusiasm he was not very much surprised when his design was the win ning one now with this new slant on life he felt childish to think that he had ever feared honest labor might lose htm any friends worth the keeping or that he could have felt so bitter toward jean for honoring ted above him he could now clearly see that she had been wise to insist on her father not tempting him out of his chosen work by offering him a place as secretary here in his chosen work he had already begun to climb from the lowly stonecutter to the stone inspector- and now soon he would have his own contract on that school chapel after all did not the dept dreams of a mans heart call him to ie work for which he was best fitted were they not really qods dreams for him so that he must be true to them if he would lso to the full height of his humanity his thoughts ran on as he carefully measured the space for the capstone of a high arched window through whose opening he could see the street below before his quick vision there passed a picture of a low blue roadster with ted at the wheel and jean at his side swift as the glimpse hod been it was enough to show him that a change had come over jean she was thinner and some how less glowing and vital than the pic ture of her he had kept in his mind it disturbed him why had he let her go out of his life without an effort to hold her he felt a sort of contempt fo the mixed emotions that had dominated him that day when he hod laid aside his cap and gown and begun to break stone on the campus he was deeply disturbed by this glimpse of a troubled jean and when he saw the blue roadster the next day he was even more disturbed ted was at the wheel again and the car was idling down the avenue as he seemed complete ly absorbed in the conversation of his companion who was not jean at all she was a younger girl a brilliant blonde and dressed in that severe oversmart style some of the younger set affected next day at the sam hour the blue roadster came by again and again ted was at the wheel but the girl beside him back to uncle 8am mayor d laurence maclren of saint john nb is shown above with the his toric guadrant used by the first admiral or the united states navy john paul jonca mayor maclaren returned the historic instrument to the united states personally through president roosevelt during commencement exercises at the naval academy at annapolis the quadrant will be placed in the naval academy museum was not jean and a hard sort of anger settled around donalds heart donald thought harshly of ted for tiring so quickly of a girl like jean and then us ing her car to play about with another girl i no wonder jean had a hurt we wlldervd look and how he would like to give ted the trouncing he deserved donald- climbed into his own car which he had been able to buy and he noticed grimly that his large steady hands were shaking us he put them to the wheel at that instant jean ap peared walking across the street in- stlnctlvely he honked his horn to attract her attention at the smile of welcome she gave him he jumped out of his car and was walking toward her when a car swerved reekuisly around tha corner oaught jean with 1u fender asd hurtsd her to tha pavemsnt donald cleared the dlstanoa bstwaen them at one leap at the same time malt ing a quick mental note of tha number of tha ear at his feet jean lay while and limp the next second he had pick ed her up snd started to hi car with her ms first thought being a hospital holding her close as if by his own strength he would give life bank to her he did not know that he was peaking low wards of tenderness to her until she opened her eyes and smiled at him for an instant sh shivered aa if suddenly coming back to life and then her con clous reactions sprang to activity for pitys sake don she laughed shakily lets got out of this before the police come i am not realty hurt a bit a fall always did knock the breath out of me but i am all right now the everwatchful traffic officer was already at their aide as donald placed hut- burden in the car and slipped in beside her as the man was a friend of donalds in a few lowspoken words the necessary business was settled as don ald turned to jean the world seemed suddenly radiant with the smile she gave him his words began stumbling over themselves while he tried to tell her that which had been so long in his heart to tell ho forgot tod he forgot every- ting but the love that had to be told wlille jean sat larnngcly silent until donald was almost frightened at his audacity at length she spoke with a sort of sob tn her tlivoat why don i hove half a mind to get out and walk the rest of the way home to think that you really cured like that all of the time and then left me to break my heart about you all summer the idea of your thinking i cared for ted that way when you and i had been surh friends i think maybe ted has olwuya been my lame dog that i hod to help over stiles we were i both motherless children and close neigh bors and i was six months older you see how i would feel responsible for help ing him but now ho has really grown up father says he is a fine business man and i bqllevo he is i sold him my blue roadster nd he has himself engag ed to a girl- ho is very much in love with so i can wash my hands or any further responsibility but i had no money jean and only a jab at stonecutxlng and donald began defensively but jeun interrupted and you wanted to rob me of all the glory of working snd saving and helping you oh jean he said brokenly youll never know what it meant when i thought you were killed just now yea she said aoftly i do know dan for i thought this summer i hod lost you i buy your electric range dont bwkitkh in n hot- liouso kitohtui thusiiiiiinnr 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