The Cotton-Tail, Yearbook of The North Texas State Normal School, 1906 Page: 87
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From his window opposite the college, Hubert saw Elaine returning, and
came out on the campus to meet her. It was nearly six then, and they sat down
on a bench under a tree. They had been talking about ten minutes, when some-
one called Elaine to the telephone. Elaine, in her hurry, left her cloak and bon-
net on the bench, and Hubert called to her to come back and get them when she
finished talking, as he would be there waiting for her with something she wanted.
Elaine talked for about fifteen minutes and would have talked longer if
the supper bell had not interrupted her. As I came down to supper, she asked
me to run across to the campus with her to where she had left her bonnet and
cloak. When we reached our gate, Tommy was just passing. Elaine, I think,
with malice aforethought, said to him: "Mr. Bell, will you please go by the
campus and bring me my cloak and bonnet? Just lay them on the bench on thc
porch for we 'II be in at supper, and tell Mr. Harris I am sorry I could not cor
back, as he asked me to, and that I think he might have brought my things home
when he saw I was not going to return."
Tommy, happy in doing a service for Elaine, and at being asked to carry a
rebuke to his rival, started off toward the campus in the gathering darkness.
What happened next I tell you as Tommy told me:
" You see, Miss Mary, it was this way: I met Jones on the corner, and
we talked till nearly dark. I had almost forgotten about Elaine's things, and by
the time I reached the bench where they were, it was really pitch dark. Just as
I was gathering up her cloak and bonnet I saw Harris coming towards the tree,
and an idea struck me. It was so dark I thought I could fool Harris, and make
him think I was Elaine, So I dropped my hat under the bench, put on Elaine's
bonnet, and threw her cloak around my shoulders. By this time it was pretty
dark, and before I was fully decided whether it was right for me to do this, Harris
had come up behind me, and kneeling a little to the side of me, on the side where
Elaine's cloak was hanging over, commenced begging my pardon for not coming
back, and said that he was on his way to Mr. B-'s to tell me why he had not
returned. Then he called himself a beast and idiot, and other complimentary
names.
"Before I had time to gather my wits Harris said: 'Elaine, don't speak a
word till I am through, then you may either consign me to Hades, or give me my
passport to Paradise.' Of course I was willing not to say anything. Then Hu-
bert, thinking still that I was Elaine, commenced making love to me in his best
style. You know, Miss Mary, Hubert's always spouting poetry, especially Riley's.
I used to be fond of James Whitcomb myself, but since Hubert has been run-
December 18, 1905-Reagan meeting.
January 6, 1906-Amphion Club of Dallas.
January 9, 1906-Prof. Henri Deschamps' talk on Physiognomy.
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