Central High School - Almanac Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Have you seen anything of my roll of drawings ? she anxiously enquired. Then he remembered very vividly where he had seen them last. He became very conscience-stricken and felt like a wretch. I-Ie looked rather blank at first and then said, O what punish- ment shall I have to endure? Yes, I dropped them under the bench on which we were sitting at the park. And with much tact he showed her how his very thought- fulness had caused her loss. But I will go right back for the roll, Mary, and will be back here before you know it. And so Cliff Boynton set out to hunt for the lost parcel after he had conducted Mary to her home. He was always rather careless and now the fact came home to him. I-Ie was a traveling agent for a large firm in Denver. He had become acquainted with Miss Spayd through their mutual friend, Norma Chambers. CHAPTER IV. It could not have been more than a half an hour after Mary reached home that she was told a gentleman wished to see her in the parlor. Upon entering she was surprised to see her old acquaintance, Frank Forster. After a pleasant greeting, Frank produced the parcel. Of' course, she was delighted. She started to smile. I wonder how Cl-, Mr. Boynton, will succeed in his search, she said. And then she related the incident to him. There is one picture I had a notion to pocket for myself, said Frank. Of course, Mary couldn't imagine wha! one. So, Frank, rather embarassed, showed it to her. It puts me in mind of old times, that's all, he said. O, does it?,' asked Miss Spayd, mischievously. Well, I have promised that to another young man-a friend of Norn1a's, Mr. Boynton. Now, Mary had promised a picture to that young man, and had been undecided which one she would give him. So, all of a sudden, she ixed on that one, because some one else desired it. O, Mary did not intend to be mean, but she had her reasons.

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home. They hailed the next car and were soon enjoying a cool ride. It was perhaps twenty minutes after the departure of these two interesting people when two young men came strolling along. They came up to this particular bench and sat down. But suddenly Forster, for it was our former friend, stopped and picked up something. Ho, ho, what have we here? said Bryce. We will soon see, said Frank. Turning it over he read on the silver name-piece of the music-roll: MARY C. SPAYD, 212A Parkwood Ave. TOLEDO, OHIO. Well, I wonder if this belongs to our Mary Spayd, said Frank. Thereupon he opened it and discovered numerous drawings. Looking them over he came upon one strangely familiar. A very pretty girl sitting at a desk. She was indus- triously studying a book, and looking closer he saw its name: History of the English Kings. ' Bryce gave an exclamation: Well, I do declare, if that isn't a picture of Norma Chambers, I don't know what it is! Frank was in a meditative mood. It looks as she did then, three years ago. But I couldn't say whether it looks like her now or not, he replied. Since she went to Denver I haven't heard much of her but I would like to see her,', he went on. By this time he had put back the papers and was gazing intently into space. Suddenly Bryce broke out laughing. I tell you, old boy, the hag was right 3 beware of fortune tellers hereafter. Well,', said Frank, she said I should return it but I would have known that much. See that you do, then, replied George still smiling. Meanwhile the young couple had gotten nearly to Miss Spayd's home. When she began looking for something. What are you looking after ? asked Mr. Boynton, for such was his name.

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, . Come to think of it, she said to herself, I believe he would be delighted with Norma's picture. So she stilled that small voice. She told Frank she had good news. 'Norma Chambers was coming to visit her for two months. You see,'? said she, Mr, Boynton lives in Denver, too, and often brings messages from Norma to me. . He came yesterday and Norma will be here day after tomorrow. - - ' Then they started on school topics, of the times they had then. Frank told her of his college life. But they were soon interrupted by the arrival of Mr. Boynton. Mr. Boynton, this is an old friend of mine, Mr. Forsterf Mr. Forster, allow me to present Mr. Boynton, a friend of mine and Norma's, as I was just telling you afew moments ago. - The young men shookhands. For some undefined reason, Forster did not feel very friendly to the Westerner. And Cliff Boynton was not in a very amiable mood, for his search had been in vain. - A ' Well, Miss Spayd, I have failed in my mission, he said. Yes, but I have ithere all right, and she held- it up. He looked the question he would have asked, and she proceeded to enlighten him. Then Frank rose to go. You 'must come again and renew your acquaintance with Norma, said Mary. He thanked her for the invitation and took his leave. ' As he walked along, Forster thought over many things, chief among which was, that Cliff Boynton was a lucky fellow. It did not make lzim any happier, though. By the time he reached town, he had decided not to call on Miss Spayd's visitor. I would feel out of place, he soliloquized. Therefore, when he received a neat invitation three days later to attend a small party in honor of Miss Norma Chambers, at Miss Spayd's home, he sent his regrets, on plea of business. His friend Bryce went. The next morning he asked him, in an indiierent way, how the affair went off You should have been there to see our old friend, and Miss Chambers was certainly looking her best. And Mr. Boynton from Denver is a first-rate fellow, said George. A Do you think so? said Forster, I wasn't particularly struck with him? And then he changed the conversation.