But the affair that more than anything' else aided in es
tablishing a close intimacy between the two young people,
did not occur till past the middle of the winter term. Arm
strong’s room as has been said was 470, at that time the
room on the fourth floor next to the wall which shut off
“Shedom” from the rest of the building. One warm after
noon late in February Armstrong was standing looking out
of his open window. The first suggestion of spring had
come', and many a window in the great building had been
opened to welcome the mild, sweet air. Presently the young
Freshman heard a chattering of small voices below. Lean
ing out of his window he saw two or three little muckers
walking about close to the base of the building looking for
anything that might be thrown from the students’ rooms.
Armstrong had just made up his mind to duck them, when a
slight noise on his right, a sound as of several small objects
striking a broad surface, attracted his attention. lie looked
in the direction from whence the sound came. All at once
he started, tightly gripping the window sill and staring at
what met his gaze, then with a dart retreated into his room.
I-le had seen on the slightly projecting sill of the neighbor
ing window the upper part of a girl’s coat and—the coat was
brown and had a black collar ! The sound he had heard was
that of the coat buttons striking the wood as the garment
was thrown down.
Armstrong stood for several moments staring at the
wall unable to grasp the full meaning of what he had seen.
Had his eyes deceived him ? He wanted to look again but
he dared not. Could it be possible that she was his next
door neighbor, though shut off by a stout partition? J-lis
heart gave a bound at the thought!
From this day forth it was plainly to be seen, by all
those who noticed the movements of Armstrong and Miss
Seymour, that a “case” was indeed developing - . In fact the
two young’ people were beginning to carry on together,