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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
A Summer Fancy
By Ethel Taurog
"Hello, Gypsy, where've you was going over in her mind, the
been? Jump on and 'I '11 take you last few months spent at college.
I low she had always looked for-
home. Ha, she disdains us. Why
ward to her graduation! Now she
this silence, fair damsel?" A looked back with regret that her
young man in a light brown suit school days were over.
leaned back in the old-fashioned
Her kind, indulgent father readi-
buggy and laughed.
ly consented, when she had an-
"You think you are awfully hu- nounced her determination to go to
morous," replied Rebecca Fishman, college. She had no definite idea
or purpose in mind as to why she
walking on rapidly.
wanted to go. Anything to get
"Farewell, proud beauty, I will away from the dull routine of the
win you yet," continued the young town. With nothing to disturb the
man. He drove on, looking back smooth trend of her life she was
over his shoulder at the girl. She happy until a month before her
turned her head slightly and gazed graduation, when her eyes were
suddenly opened. She had been in-
at the vanishing vehicle, but even vited to attend a lecture of a col-
at that increasing distance she lege club. The lecturer was a
seemed to see his ironical smile. Southern delegate to a convention
She rapidly turned the corner of a who had been persuaded to address
small side street and stopped the members of this club. Alas,
breathlessly in front of an old di- poor Rebecca! He spoke of the
lapidated house, with a 'big "To definite aims of college students in
Let" sign hanging in a window. a very positive manner. • He spoke
There was a large garden at the of the work that should be done in
right of the house which arrested social service, bettering and re-
forming conditions, and he pointed
her attention. It seemed as if some
out emphatically that they by their
eccentric person in a sarcastic
mood had mixed up vegetable and education, were properly equipped
to do this work. It did not take
flower seeds and had scattered
Rebecca long to arrive at the con-
them indiscriminately.
clusion that she could do some-
Morning glories twined their thing towards reforming existing
pretty green stems on stalks of evils. She was introduced to the
corn, scarlet poppies peeped out speaker and eagerly told him of
from lettuce beds, and grapevines her resolution to enlist in the ranks
drooped down over the fence.
of social workers. He could not
"What a confusion!" murmured say much then, but he promised to
Rebecca. "How like the state of call on her before he left and dis-
my mind, a mixture of substantial, cuss her plans in detail. He came
prosaic facts and hazy, dreamy a few days later. How he did talk
ideals."
in his deep full voice and how in-
She walked on wearily, blind to tently he looked at her with his
her beautiful surroundings. The serious gray eyes! No one had
large, thickly branched trees, under ever impressed her as he did. It
whose shade she walked, had no wasn't exactly what he said either,
charm for her. Her thoughts although she had some vague idea
were traveling far away to the that he spoke about duty, social
dusty, noisy city from which she service and opportunity.
had returned a few days ago, after
She was deeply interested in this
the college commencement. A blu
man. More than this she would
jay was lustily sounding his note, not acknowledge even to herself.
but Rebecca paid no heed to him. She had been thinking of him ever
"How weary, stale, flat and un- since. How friendly he had spok-
profitable seem to me all the uses en to her and he had also promised
of this world," she quoted musing- to write. What mattered it that he
ly "I should substitute in this was years older than she was or
town," she added. that they had met but a few times!
She walked on dreamily until she There is such a thing as love at
reached the end of the small street first sight. She had read many
which was at the foot of a hill. novels, although few that her En-
She stopped, angrily wondering glish professor would approve of,
why she had taken this long way so that she knew she could recog-
home and then she remembered the nize real love. As for Oscar
young man in the buggy. Two per- Sampson, she had only a friendly
pendicular lines appeared on her liking for him. They had been
low forehead. "He is getting comrades for years. In fact she
more and more impertinent," she owed the nickname "Gypsy" to
said sharply. Then her thoughts him. When she was seven years
drifted into other channels. She old and he was twelve, he had per-
slowly retraced her steps. The long suaded her to run away with him
dark lashes drooped and the cor- "to be Gypsies." She smiled rem-
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