Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1937, Page 27

DAILY SHORT STOR' L b ol By Bill Brennan. lr‘s none of your business why I | should drop intc the hut just at the time Doreen Lynn was having tea and muffins after her English 6 class. Sure I knew she'd be there, and I didn't go in to drink tea either. On top of that I make a point of knowing the class schdules of every eyeful of co-ed on the campus. And they all make it their business to drop around to the hut some time dur- ing the day to be seen and exchange stupid trivialities. So, seeing her in 8 booth alone for once, I cut in on her quick, before that gang from the Omega house swoop down on her like | they usually do just because she hap- pens to have eyes and a shape and things that don't hurt her personality any. “Hello, Squirt,” I say, sitting myself | across the table, without bothing to ask her permission, like the frosh do, because I'm on the Daily and in po- sition to do little favors for gals like Doreen. “Mind if I hist a couple mugs of suds while you're doing those muffins and tea a favor?” She smiles archy. “Not if you have @& dime.” That's Doreen. T'd have reached for her check at| that crack, but, even though it is upside down, I see it's clipped at the two-bit mark. So I remember the 15 cents in my pants and keep my fingers off. That's enough to get me | three shells, which, with my knack of drinking. will last me as long as Doreen is liable to sit in one place. A fellow in college has to point him- self on things like that. * %k X ¥ AI"TER the preliminary sparring Doreen and I are leaning across the table at each other in a way that | would make the Omega boys unscrew | their fraternity pins and jump on them with rage. But nobody can say | that a dame ever softened this cynical eenior; I leave that sort of thing to the frosh and sappy sophomores. The queer thing about this con- | versation is that my roommate, Doug Hanley, is occupying the middle of it, and I can't recall how or when he was brought up as a subject. Which is nothing unusual when you're talk- ing to Doreen. She makes an art of that sort of thing. “I hear,” she remarks casually, “that he drives through Oxford when he goes home week ends. And I sort of wondered if you couldn’t fix it so I could ride with him, Hal.” That's all she drops, but I'm on guard instantly. Four years' gadding about off and on with Doreen has taught me a thing or two. “Listen, pal” I pal her. “We've been leveling to each other now for & long time, we've had our differences of opinion, but there's no hard feel- ings. Now, with the end in sight, why do you have to try to go betWeen me and my roommate when you know I need all the money he can spare?” * % % x BUT Doreen chooses to misunder- stand. I expect that, too. “But,” she protested, “if he's going right through my heme town. Hal. I don't see——. Hal, you're being ridic- ulous.” That convinces me I'm right. You see Doug Hanley drives a car. I mean | “Sure I knew she’d be there.” he's that sort of fellow. The dean trusts him to drive a car and use it for what he says he will. The Board of Regents would trust him, and they don't trust anybody. And it isn't be- cause he's one of the best quarter- backs the squad had either. It's all because he's one of those serious stu- dents who takes college seriously and bonss until all hours of the night. on top of that he’s good looking. It's this last item that gets me worry- ing about what Doreen is up to. Because I lmmvi Doug Hanley| doesn’t know his way around dames like I do. But then, there's no argu- ing with Doreen. So I see tirem off for home that week | end together, then go down to the hut. * ox ko URING the next week they're spending their evenings out in the arboretum together. Anybody Who | knows Doreen knows what she can do | with a setting like the arboretum | when it's all broken out in a rash of lilacs and things. That gives you an idea of how Doreen works. In fact, that is Doreen. Doug gives me a song and dance about how Doreen can't think of any one but Pat Savage. That puts me wise. It's plain that Doreen is going to spring the clamps on Doug Hanley. Which she proceeds to do by going home with him every week end and having him over to make fudge for him. A lot of these dames on the campus could become a menace if they'd put on an act like that. Of course, others would make unnecessary nuisances of themselves, but they're hopeless anyway. “There’s nothing the matter with me, Hal” Doug announced to me one Monday evening just before he Jeaves for a turn through the arbor- etum with Doreen. “I'm going after her and make her forget Pat Savage. | I'm going to ask her to marry me,” he ! says, with a new light in his eyes that | T'd never seen there before. | “Go ahead,” I tell him helpfully, “stick your chin out.” | * X ¥ x HE SORT of smiles tolerantly and lets himself out of the room. 1 get my feet off the desk as soon as the door closes behind him and for the first time in my life I'm thinking. At the same time I'm listening to see if Doug starts his car. He doesn’t. 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