The Gavelyte, October 1909

J 2(i 1'1-l lG GAV BLYTE, and sLutlieJ and m,vl e fi:- w friend:; and now I am going away and few will PVPr know then· was such a one as Gertrude 1'<,dd ever graduated from Ashland. McNeil and Roy, l'or instanct', will be remembered as long as the school lives." ''Gertrude, you are worn out this evening and blue. You are at the head of your classes and will receive the German prize . There is not one of us who wc,uld not exchange all glory we have obtained for the know ledge that we were at the hrad of our class. We will be remembered as Lall player, debaters and singer., You will be honored by all your nrofessorn and everyone wh0 was ever in the class room with you . You go out into the world with the name of being a scholar and before many years you \Yill have a chair in some large college. But there come Mab]~ and Grace." ,, . ' "Hello, girls," was the greeting of the newcomers, "we have been down ..... watching the parade and the bonfires. You bhuuld have been there. They called on Roy for a speech and he madf a splendid one. McNeil walked up the street with us and you ought to· have seen hiru. He is awfully mad . Beth, I don't see why you go with him at all when you could go with Roy. He is the meaneBt fellow on the team and let that hall go past him on purpose toda; becanse he hates Roy and did 1wt want to see him win that game. I tell you I bate Ed McNeil, so thert>," and ;,is Mabel finished she and Grace went on down the corridor leaving Beth a1 ,d Gt'rtrude sitting in silence. Finally Beth said, "Gertrude, I don't know what tn do . I h~ve gone with Ed ever since I c~'ne here and liked hi"TI better than 1 did anyone elFle until William Roy came . Now I don't know which I care most . fur. Erl gets dreadfully angry ~ hen I g" with Will and tells me he is poor and has hardly money enough to get through school and will have to make hi, own . way in the world . He says Will ::bowed ill manners in ' ' butting in" as he calls it and insisting on going with me." ''What does Wili say about you going with McNtil?" Asked Gertrude . "Not one word but I know he does not like it. He never speaks of it and I think more of him for it. It hurts me worse to see the look on his face than all th e storming Ed does. Ed has always taken it for granted that I would marry him but· since Will came it is different although Will has never told me he cares f, ir me." "Will worships the ground you walk on and the only reason he does not