in all the various ways that are to be expected of those en
gaged in such an affair, and these maneuvers did not dif
fer greatly from those in vogue at the present day. To be
sure they did not sit on the radiator in the hall, for there
were no radiators then, and she did not wear his “frat” pin,
as there were no fraternities for him to belong to, and they
did not play golf together, for in those days golf was not the
style; but they did read the bulletin board together, study in
the halls, walk out “Lover’s Lane” when they could steal a
chance on Sunday afternoons, correspond in class, eye each
other in chapel, as well as various other things, the most of
which are familiar spectacles in our college life now. It may
be worth while to add also, that they each got a flunk in the
same subject at the end of the winter term.
The part of their achievements with which this story is
chiefly concerned, however, did not come to the knowledge of
the public for some little time. It was indeed truethatMiss
Seymour's room was the first room in “Shedom” next to the
fourth floor partition and therefore was adjacent to
Armstrong’s. This fact was established between the two
soon after Armstrong’s discovery of the coat in the window.
This led to the construction of a rather interesting device
for communicating between the two rooms. In the gather
ing darkness of early evening Armstrong, taking a piece of
small grey cord, tied it into a long loop, and securing it with
a two-pronged tack on the outer portion of his window sill,
passed the cord, by means of a long slender branch, over to
Miss Seymour’s window. The young lady was on hand to
receive it. She also made her end of the loop secure in a
similar way. Thus the loop was stretched and held loosely at
each turn. It could now be pulled back and forth like a city
tenement house clothes line, and a note fastened to either
side of the loop could, by a simple pulling of the other side,
be moved from one window to the other. By this means
Armstrong and his fair neighbor kept up a vigorous corres-