"Why, for goodness sake. darling, you'rn practically writ ing upside down.” For after a while her girl friends got used to the queer manner with which she did things, and forgot to mention them. Only when some •ne new appeared, some of her classmates' men friends, for es» ample, would she be noticed. She missed most of the fun of col lege. If she yearned for male com panionship, yearned to be taken to dances and parties, no one ever guessed it—until Bill Smith came along. The party wasn't prearranged. Duncan Hartley had dated Agnes Hutchins. At the last minute he called and said a friend of his was up from the South, and could Agnes get another girl'.’ Agnes could and promised. But when she tried she discovered that every one in the dorm was busy that night. Sha railed Duncan, but Duncan had j left, and so. a a last resort, she appealed t ■ Dorothy. Hill Smi'li was tall and dark and quiet ;itikeii IF- had rice eyes and a plea jmt .‘mile d a way of making > m pvl that the world was ail right Th.ev drove out to Spittoni'1'. on the Post road, m Dun can'.; car and ordered dinner Dor othy. reniemberif:; her affliction, dreading The mnr mt when the soup arrived and Bill or Duncan made a crack air it her affliction, hesitated Indore starting to eat. considered pleading lack of hunger ■ and then suddenly he saw Bill Smith pick in hm sp. or and dip it i into his soup Hoi heart gave a bound 15:11 va-' left handed' -ind Bill wa pi tty awkward about it. too! it was as if iron bonds that had held Dorothy in restraint f< r years had suddenly fallen away. She blos somed, atttl blossoming had an ef fect on Bill Smith that wa ; miracu lous. in fact, it did go beyohd the bonds of friendship, for that June, after a spring of ray and tiirilling ly happy dates v ith Bill, he pro posed marriage Dorothy, not dar ing to dream that his interest in her went that deep, though secret ly hoping that such was the case, accepted, after a breathless mo ment of ecstasy, in tf hich he held her light enfolded in his arms and spoke words that few gilds can hear without cither thinking them utterly ridiculous and absurd or all imnortant and sincere. They planned to be married the next fall During the summer Bill came out to Butterfield and met the fan Uy. Her father and mother and brother liked him instantly. If they hadn't Dorothy would have thought them crazy, for no one in her estimation, could be so glorious as left-handed Bill Smith. Two days before the wedding Dorothy sat in her bedroom window and widened Bill and her brother. Tom. playing tennis in the courts beyond the hydrangeas. Ami as she watched, a curious feeling of doubt possessed her . . . An hour later she asked Bill to walk with her through the woods beyond the house. When they were well out of sight, she stopped him and said: "Bill. 1 just watched you arttl Tom playing tennis." "Now don't rub it in,” Bill grinned. "Tom's had more prac tice.” "It isn't that. Bill." She looked at him intently "Bill, you were playing with your right hand!" j Bill’s mouth fell open. Blotiri rushed into his cheeks He svval lowed, tried to speak and couldn't "Bill." Dorothy went on, "you aren't lett-handed at all. You only pretended to be — because you thought I’d be embarrassed. You’ve been pretending all along '

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