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"Please tell us why you came to the afternoon concert at the Chico Normal School this summer in a colored shirt and your dress suit, and why you did not sing your part of the program?" "That's two questions," murmured Pellams. He could not look at Mrs.
"The association of men and women in an atmosphere of study does not mean sentimentality. The relation should be normal and helpful, not spoiled by extremes." Katharine had heard these views before. "But they can't dodge the extremes, you see," persisted Pellams. "It's the place here, the walks and drives in the country and all.
"Of course," continued she, "I do not take your remark about scholarship as worthy of consideration in your case, because I am in one or two of your classes, when you attend them," and Pellams, listening, gave thanks that he and Professor Grind opposite had no such relation; "but monopolized time is really the cry of a good many who would wish to work, and it is all wrong.
When the dance music at Roble had ceased, and the quiet of the December night was broken by only the patter of raindrops and the sound of singing in the Mayfield distance, punctuated by sharp whoops, Jimmy had got Pellams back to the Knockery pretty well consoled.
A girl raised one of the hallway curtains just then. The sudden flash of light came upon Katharine where she stood with her hand in Pellams'. She had meant that look, that softening of the eyes, that little quiver of the mouth, for darkness and concealment, and he caught it all before she could blot it out with a smile.
"Orate to us, General Jackson!" The old man braced himself, with drunken dignity, against the door. "You young fellows c'n make fools o' yourselves," he said, "but you can't make fool o' me." "That's all right, pardner Nature saved us the trouble in your case," said Pellams, the thoughtless.
To the woman-hater's mind, if a man has become indebted to a girl, honor bids him pay the debt, the sooner the better. He need never see the girl again, once the score is even. This philosophy evolved, it took another cigarette to decide just how the balance could be struck, and then Pellams went downstairs to wheedle a remnant of breakfast from the indulgent Foo.
This table-talk gave the men an idea for a nickname, and so, when they knew the Freshman a little better, they slipped an arm through his and called him "Professor." It was really the most civilized nickname in the house. One Thursday, at football practice, about two weeks after Haviland had agreed to join, Pellams spoke to him. "Professor, on Saturday night you are to be initiated.
A co-ed had found him in trouble and had done the "white" thing by him at a critical moment; even Jimmy Mason, over at the Hall, could not have stood by him any better. In an obligation to Jimmy there was no problem only the matter of time to do his part but with a co-ed, Pellams felt that it was different. She was not a feature of his life.
"Never again!" declared Pellams; "my idea is, why can't we pretend to have a case on each other not any passing fancy, but a real peacherino, like the best of them?" Somewhat to his surprise, the girl was not visibly enthusiastic. "Just how do I profit, please, if I butcher myself to make your Roman holiday?" "You can die happy, knowing we've pulled their le bluffed 'em beautifully.
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