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Caption: Sophograph - 1889
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j TIM DPHO »'»• To one accustomed to the best society, as our hero was, *>k but a moment to assume the guardianship of the fair being who had just issed hirr Let us draw the veil o( secrecy over their first meeting, filled with st iny guarded laughs, delicate sallies, and formal questions. As at last they approached a ponderous gate way, the fair charmer said quietly: Mr. S , I must leave you. We've had such a nice time ! You must see me again." Frankie, whose susceptible heart yielded to this touching request, replied that he should be most happy to meet her again, raised his hat, and vanished with a light "Ta, Ta!" C H A P T E R II Gi me the #irl that oder and true, Give me the fri« I that ia faithful to u. Dean ritey. The week following the event narrated in the preceeding chapter, the spring term ended, and Frankie went home to spend the summer vacation but. gentle reader! you may rest assured that he did not forget the fair creature left behind in the college town. The weeks sped swiftly by, and again Frankie S is in Champaign, this time as a *Sophomore. It was a lovely autumn eve. not cold enough to be uncomfortable, but enough to give keen enjoyment to the pleasant exercise of dancing. The Champaign opera house held a small and select gathering made up o the devotees of the Terpsichorean muse. It was a pleasant scene, an i one which will doubtless remain long in the memory of the young lady in whose honor it was gotten up, and who was about to leave town for the fr Iimate of Michigan. Prominent among the happy throng were our hero the object of h utmost devotion. As they paused for an instant for a brief tete a tet she nurmur !, clasp ing her tiny hands delightedly : "Oh, just ketch on to that lovely danct I'd lik to ki n who h "That," said he, "that's rman He thinks he it the ain't; he »ok too recent for that Ducki " he continue ash ntlyfa hei carmine cheek, "let's promt ade ?" "Not this eve," she replied, furti "Oh, come on. now; you know j i will he teasingly i $i n g neat her, beseechingly. "Go'way, j i naughty l) * ," he rotor' I, inert ilously. "Well. I will, ycr lent !. Then she broke out agail I >k at Mi |, ni "Wh i 1 he. i luted "II \\ I'll f| M
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