Andy at Yale: Or, The Great Quadrangle MysteryStokes, Roy Eliot
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Andy at Yale: Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery
Stokes, Roy Eliot
College students -- Juvenile fiction; Yale University -- Juvenile fiction
"Kittie Martin's. She's the one you picked out for me; isn't she?"
"Yes, and I wish you'd stick to her!" and with this Dunk tumbled into
bed and did not talk further. Andy put out the light with a thoughtful
air, and did not try to carry on the conversation. It was as near to a
quarrel as the roommates had come since the affair of Burke's.
But matters were smoothed over, at least for a time, when, next day,
came notes from the girls saying they had decided to prolong their visit
in New Haven.
"Good!" cried Dunk. "We can take them out some more."
And this time Andy was careful not to pay too much attention to Miss
Alice Jordan, though, truth to tell, he liked her better than he did
Kittie Martin. And it is betraying no secret to confess that Alice
seemed to like Andy very much.
The boys hired a carriage and took the girls for a drive one day, going
to the beautiful hill country west of the new Yale Field.
As they were going slowly along they met a taxicab coming in the
opposite direction. When it drew near Andy was somewhat surprised to
find it contained Miss Mazie Fuller, the actress. She laughed and bowed,
waving her hand to Andy.
"Who was that?" asked Dunk, who had been too busy talking to Alice to
notice the occupant of the taxi.
"Miss Fuller," answered Andy.
"Oh, your little actress. Yes."
Andy blushed and Miss Martin, who sat beside the youth, rather drew
away, while Alice gave him a queer, quick look.
"An actress?" murmured Miss Martin. "She looks young--a mere girl."
"That's all she is," said Andy, eagerly. Too eagerly, in fact. He rather
overdid it.
"Tell 'em how you saved her life," suggested Dunk, laughing.
"Forget it," returned Andy, with another blush. "I'm tired of being a
hero."
"Oh, I heard about that," said Miss Jordan. "There was something in the
papers about it. She's real pretty, isn't she?" and again she looked
queerly at Andy.
"Oh, yes," he admitted, taking warning now. "Say, tell me, shall we go
over that cross road?"
"To change the subject," observed Miss Martin, with a little laugh, and
a sidewise glance at Andy.
He was beginning to find that jealousy was not alone confined to Dunk.
The ride came to an end at last and Andy wondered just how he stood with
Dunk and the girls.
"Hang it all!" he mused, "I seem to get in Dutch all along the line."
The girls left New Haven, having been given a little farewell supper by
Dunk and Andy. The two boys had hard work to resist the many
self-invited guests among their chums.
Several days later there came some letters to Dunk and Andy. One, to the
latter, was from Miss Fuller, the actress, telling Andy that she
expected to be in New Haven again, and asking Andy to call on her.
"You are going it!" said Dunk, when Andy told of this missive, and also
mentioned receiving one from Miss Martin, thanking him for the
entertainment he and Dunk had given to her and her chum. "You sure are
going it, Andy! Two strings to your bow, all right."
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