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5 st j av atjotjst 18 1932 thf aftton free pr ratsb 5ew fe ftxt t j 4h v iyr jfe vsbb mfynrt tar kenig chaeltes pad v by frederick halc- 3 vvja is ijf pi el- is- t was to be a very important i 1 evening walter had known it all day he felt it even wore upstairs after supper while he was put ting on his other suit and polishing his shoes just what would happen he did not know probably nothing he meant to make it his business in a way- to see that nothing did happen and yet he was certain that forty fifty years hence when he was ah old man he should iooa back to this evening as one of the mo important in ahhis llfir they had eaten supper he and his mother almost in silence she- knew where he was going she must guess metmigof all that he thought and felt though jt was a matter they never talked of he hoped she would not ques- tian him but she did gomg over to bettys she asked as he picked up bis hat es he answered you wont know what to do with yourself after she is gone oh 111 and something to keep me busy youre not very old she was trying to talk as ii it were auunlmportant but she did not succeed very well youre not twjentyone yet and betty is almost a little girl youre not getting to think too much of her axe you he looked grave then a sudden re- collection made him laugh you know mother the kids aigschool have teased betty about me miss tread- wen the english teacher told me about it or she said they tried to tease her until one day betty flared up and said to them well you can say all you please v x- think walter diercks is a nice boy end i dont care who knows it now mother its the same with me i think betty fenton is a nice girl and i dont care who knows it she did not smile as he bad hoped he would and he knew that she was worrying about him he came and sat down etfv her he wanted to reassure now he could not speak serious mother he said am i a fairly satis factory boy yes she said a steady worker save my money nobad habits sowtngnowlldoats most of the credit is due to you but some of it i believe is due to betty pont you leave school earlier was- to go away from her i she nodded sr betty has done me a lot of good and now dont worry she isnt going to do meanyharm its isnt that quite i know and im not going to do her any harm i know im not twentyone mother and i know shes still more a little girl than she is a grownup young lady so dont worry good night mother good night she answered walter was thinking as hie walked down the street in the direction of bettys house gradually and quite naturally a wonderful new thing had been coming into his life he was a junior with just one dominant interest basketball when betty had entered high school he was the schools star player the one whose name was most often on the lips of the cheer leader as for his studies he kept them up simply to keep on theteam betty belonged to a different crowd from his his mother was just as good a woman as mrs fen- ion every one knew that but while mrs fen ton was hi college mrs diercks had been working as a hired girl that was a part of the difference and yet it iwas not so important as one might imagine dumfries was democratic and among the young people there were few social barriers the first time walter had jlskedbetty to go to a school party it had been almost an act of bravado and he had half expected her to refuse but she had gone with him and they had had a good time together what he did not know was that mrs penton nad asked professor tate about him and received a good report that was almost four yearsago betty was a good student before that first year was over it had begun to gall walter that he a tall junior should have grades so much poorer than this little freshmans he suddenly went athls studies as if they had been the players of an opposing team his grades prompt ly showed the result betty played the piano for the high school orchestra walter bad never learned any more music than he could help but about the middle of that junior year he bought a mandolin took a few lessons practised faithfully and the next year joined the orchestra his voice hitherto despised and unmanageable was he found set tling into a passable bass and he joined the glee club it ratlier surprised him that he should have a senior year he had never in tended in spite of the joys of basketball to keep on and graduate his idea had always been to get out and earn some money but he did graduate well up toward the head of ins class at the time he did not realise that it was betty who badmade him do it she had never asked him to but he had done it on her account he had studied harder in order to win her good opinion he had gone at music though at tbe time he would hare stoutly denied it for no other reason than to be able to walk home with her from orchestra and gleeclub practices he had graduated because to si since he had graduated she had done even more for him he was not quite sure that- she had prompted nun to take the troop of boy scouts with whom he had been in camp for the past week but he jcaew that it was on her account that he had coached the second basket ball team for the past two years there had been no money in it but the work had helped him the school atmosphere had been stimulating he was almost mre of the faculty and the position gave him standing jand prestige oh he account too though she did not know it he had changed his wprk 1- one evening on the porch waiting for her to come ydown to go with him to a school movie he had fallen into con versation with her father mr fenton had asked him where he was working walter told him rather proud of the wages he could reporthotstsrjyinhls class was doing any better mir fenton seemed to be not greatly impressed with perfect courtesy and lnlust a word or two he analyzed the young mans expectation as compared with that of one in work offering less for the present and more for the future he was merely making talk with one of bettys callers ho was he saying anything especially new professor tate had talked to every graduating class about deadened occupa tions but from bettys father such words had a weight no one else could have given them for a month walter pondered them then one day he quit the factory to become what professor tate called the bankers devil daily he swept the bank out tended the furn ace saw that the outer desks had ink blotters checks and deposit slips and bit by bit began picking up some of the abstruse mysteries of banking the pay was small compared with what he had been getting and until professor tate had talked it over with his mother she was puzzled now after eighteen months she and walter both knew that he had made no mistake hiapay had been raised and his work had grown more responsible his bank friends were as kind and helpful as the young men and women of the high school faculty mr waite the cashier turned over to him extra work on the neostyle or oddresso- graph that had brought his earnings almost towhat they were in the factory in the bank he had learned things the things betty had never done and prob ably never could do she had pjolse ability strength born of struggle betty was- a hothouse plant delicate tenderly nurtured miss- ebers was a strong beau tiful windblown prairie owernot that walter used exactly these figures there was no good reason that he could see why he should not think of miss ebers just as he did of betty ho reason in the vorld except that toe didnt why shouldnt it be the same way with betty next year or the year after she might be saying waltsrderlcks is a nice boy and i dont care whokncws it and adding but he lsnt and then would follow some other name all that was to be expected and because it was so likely to happen he must not say to her one word to make her feel that she was not free inside him something was stronger it sometimes saeniedto- him than he himself was and yet it had to be rammed down and kept under he must just say goodby and let her go awayf all these thoughts passed through- his mind in the few minutes that he was walkingthe halfidozenblocksiromhis own door to the- fentcns front steps and all of them vanished when at his light knock betty appeared to say hello walter gome- in a new leather suit case stood in the hallway she was leaving early the next morning he must make his call short axx set he asked tfles fathers goingtajtake me to milton junction in the car everythings ready- and packed 1 they sat down near the- piano bow was it- at ravens boost she asked all right he answered stubb7 white pretty nearly drowned himself and billy peters was homesick ob yes and for three days the soup the beef steak everything we cooked tasted of vanilla it looked as if somebody was playing a poor trick so i cooked one meal all toy myself and it was the same way then we found that we hadbeen keeping our salt in a can that had held vanilla-flavoring- crystals t did the mosquitoes bother much ln6not sobad this year up at the conference one day we found a wasps nest and a girl who had never seehjone before poked a stick into it i got stung only once i ran too fast bulsomeof the girls were a sight i dont suppose ycji know what studies you are going to take he asked abrupt ly changing the subject yes i do ill have let me see freshman chem and algebra and french father- says if i make a good record hell take me to europe the summer after i graduate oh yes and vic prosel what vic prose will you read walter asked some buskin and newman and matthew arnold which one first buskins seven lamps of architec ture walter took out a pocket notebook and carefully set down the title im going to get it out of the library an4 ill read it too he said concluded on page six factory could never have taught him already he was planning to supplement his practical experience witha year at the stateuniversitiy th flist g had set himself on graduation to earn enough money to buy a motorcycle now seemed to him unutterably childish people had of course talked they al ways do when in a small town a boy and girl go about together for almost four years but they knew that he would not permit any nonsense beyond a certain point as for the girls betty had proved quite able to look out for herself and for that matter there had been little to poke fun at they had been good friends they had not been lovers they had not acted like lovers between them there had in the high school phrase never been anything mushy to have put into words just what he thought and felt would have been dif ficult for walter he could not have done it for professor tate or for his mother he had a high exacting code chiefly distilled out of four or five great novels his code had taught him among other things to despise sen timentality and to face hard facts once for instance he had heard mr waite say yes they have good times together but nothings likely to come of it and his steadyticking heart had skipped a beat for he had realized that mr waite was talking of himself and bettys but nothings likely to come of it meant that he probably never would marry betty and that was quite true he ad- mitteht the law of averages pointed that vay for betty college was a thing taken for granted for him four more years of study were simply out of the question betty would probably marry some man iwhom she met at college and betty was leaving for college to morrow morning -she- wouldbe changed when she came home for the christmas holiday more changed still at the years end at the end of four years he could not picture the betty of four years hence au he was sure of was that he should think just as much of her then as he did now and just because he thought -so- much of her he must let her go away to morrow morning without any sort of promise without her dreaming that he could think of a promise it had been some consolation during the past weeks to reflect that whatever else betty found at college she could find no one who cared for her more than he did but other thoughts had come to disturb even that assurance she would find men who could do more for her she would find men plenty or them who had had better advantages and such things counted they counted even with him l miss ebers the gymnaslumteaefier was just his own age and a very nice girl he had been tempted to think sometimes that miss ebers would have been glad h he had- cared for her and there was no reason in the world why he should not care for miss kbers as he cared for betty miss kbers had done i canadian national toronto aug 26 to sept 10 an inspiring example of uninterrupted progress 1 he rnumph industry edugilqinl pageantry science recreation music fashions travel sport art engineering automotive construction agriculture new goods new ideas new methods new markets romantic pageant of empire ascendancy heroism chivalry and sacrifice of great peoples 1500 performers on 1000foot stage spec- tai every evei horses pyrotechnic finale commencing sat aug 27th le sheep swine poultry 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