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. - c? Plumage Tl.t College Cloakroom Maid and the University Porter Py JANE OSBORN. ft (oivr!,-;ht. WC. by Associated Lit- ei:iry Pros. x ' i: i: c a 4 a a t : a 4 t t a a a a a W'w 'i'luifiil'y colloi opontvl Inst .Tutuiini there was a new inai.l in the l.':il;nu -in. SoiiH'tliing about her tlnrli. I'lisc lining dross. her small, milled :iproii nvA her i:irtiHl liair. tied villi a l;:; Miii-k I"1"' lit the back of her neeU. Mv.'vresti'il a French maul much more1 ilian ;i :mlent. IUit the fact was that Mo.lv Poile really was u poor south ern pirl workin? her way through the vomau's department of this big uni versity. Purlug the three or four hours that Molly was not attending lectures she liiul to stay in the stone floored, locker lined cloakroom and be ready at nny time- to get studeuts' hats and coats or jmt them away in their owners' lock vrs. At first it had seemed not at nil bad. for Molly had a soft, lovable, southern v,;fy of talking and honest brown eyes that made all the girls like her. But as the months passed they became accus tomed to seeing her every day. and They passed her thoughtlessly by. It would not have been so hard if Molly L:ul been intellectual, but she was not at ail foil 1 ft books. In fact, if sh had had a chance she would probably Lave been a little frivolous. But there were two things that made Molly's life bearable. One was the thtily visit of the university porter, and the other was the appearance now and then cf new r.::d pretty hats and wraps. Molly had a little mirror over l:er desk in the cloakroom, and when ever a ay specially charming hat ap peared on the clothing counter she would wait till the girls had left the Toom and then with it on her own pret ty head steal an admiring glance at herself over her desk. And the porter! Well, he used to come over from the university every Jay with the students' mail, which It was Molly's duty to sort and distrib ute. Of course a woman student of Thornby college ought not to have fiirted with so humble a personage as the university porter, but Molly was only half a student. The half that was cloakroom maid looked forward with impatience to the dally visitation of the porter's cheerful smile and conta gious laugh. On rainy days Molly had to handle countless damp aud muddy rubbers and galoches and dripping umbrellaa That alone would have made her dis like the rain, but besides that students always wore their old hats when It rained. She was looking out of the iron bars cf her basement window at the gloomy tky one dark day in March when all at once there swept in a stately senior, a veritable billow of soft black furs. She carelessly slipped them off. smiled at Molly and hurried off to her class. -What a dream!" thought Molly. "And on a day like this! But what does it matter when one has a car riage?' Mol'y raised the soft pieces gently from the counter and started to put them in their locker. But the tempta tion was too great. She came back and replaced them lovingly on the counter. Then very carefully she pinned the toque over her piquant little face and glanced approvingly at her Image in the mirror over her desk. If only she could see the rest, 6he wished. In a flash she jumped over the counter, closed the door into the hall and slip ped into the luxurious coat Then she stepped up to the students' long pier glass. "If only It were a little longer," she thought. And then, turning around at the sound of the opening door, she faced the porter. lie closed the door quickly and stood against it Then he turned to Molly aod laughed. But Mol ly didn't laugh back. She slipped out cf the furs,, sprang over the counter and. with a guilty blush, took the morning mall. The next day when the porter came Molly was deep iu a volume of Horace. "Nice book you're reading. Molly," remarked the porter, and Molly, the student, smiled coldly without raising Ler eyes. After that the porter left off the "Molly" from his morning's salutation, uud Molly had no difficulty in repress ing him. In fact, she was a little dis appointed that he took hi3 squelching to willingly. About u month after the" episode of the furs there was a dance i:i the col lege gymnasium, and Molly, as was her custom on such occasions, took her j'lace as inn id in the dressing room. Here Hie buttoned gloves and slippers rtnd arranged ru tiles and bows for her more favored colleagues till her lingers vver numb. Then during the long Lours of the dance she was supposed io sit find guard the wraps and lend Ler aid in case of a dilapidated coiffure or torn r utile. But tonight strains of the dance music took possession of Molly's soul and skirted Ler dainty feet tapping 011 the stone t!oor. Her curiosity and her loneliness had the upper hand, aud she slipped out of the dressing room, ran along the corridor and up the wide stone stairs toward the gallery overlooking the gymnasium. As she was hurrying timidly along be had to pass one of the lecture rooms, which had been converted for the occasion into a men's checking room. Three young men were standing Sdlj smoking. There wu something tin Borrowed I about the cut of un evening coat that fascinated Molly, and she turned lu the shadow to look. Suddenly her heart stood still. It really was the porter, the tallest one. with the light hair. He was laughing now. She was just turning to run when he faced about. And just for a second his eyes met hers through the darkness of the dimly lighted corridor. She had been discovered desertlug, and by the porter! As she couldn't go back to the dressing room now with out being seen openly, she lied to the gallery and slipped into a seat. So the porter was probably a studeut from the university! The porter whom she had tried to repress was a friend of some girl at the dance. Her head swam with the excitement of the infor mation. Just then the violins struck up a dreamy waltz. She leaned forward as far as she dared to see the dancers. Oh. if only she had that blue satin gown! She seized it enviously in her imagination. Aud then as the dancing becau her thoughts floated out on the music, and she danced with them. Just then she heard steps behind her. and, looking back into the shadow, she saw dimly outlined the face of the por ter. "Hello. Molly." he said cheerfully, "Sh!" She put her baud to her lips. "Some one might hear." "Well, let's sit somewhere else. 1 hate to whisior." "All right." Molly rose timidly. They passed by a short cut out in the starlit campus. "This is a great deal better." he said as he helped her on to a secluded ledge of the great stone building. "You look ed lonely up there watching the dan cers." "I wasn't lonely. I like to see them." "Oh. they aren't bad." he said dryly. "But when a feilow's working his way through his last year he hasn't much time to waste. I say," he said, looking at her.curiously. "what were you think ing about up there?" "Oh. I wasn't thinking at all! I was just making believe waltzing off In that soft blue satin dress. The music gets hold of me like that and drives away the cloakroom and the wet um brellas and rubbers and cross sen iors" "And obtrusive college porters who catch you dressing up in other peo ple's furs?" he laughed. "Oh, no!" she said, without 6miling. "I never can make the porter fade away with the wet umbrellas and rub bers. He seems to stay and watch me float around in other people's blue satin dresses, dancing with other peo ple's partners. He just stays and laughs." She looked up at him. "Only there won't be any porter in the cloak room any more. There will just be a poor student working his way through college like the cloakroom girl. I shall miss the porter, I think." "But he couldn't stay, you know." he said. "The cloakroom girl liked him at first, and the porter used to look forward all day to seeing her the nest Then one day she remembered she was a student and he was only a porter, and after that she was cold and distant. But the porter went right on dreaming about her. And now," he said, taking Molly's tired lit tle hand in his. "he is going to let the poor student try his luck." ADd that luck was in his favor was proved by the absence of Molly in the cloakroom when college opened In the fall. Song of the Ancient Spinning Reel. The first reel that was invented was the hand reel, the yarn being wound into skeins by turning the wheel and fastening the skeins after counting a sufficient number of strands. 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