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Back to the noisy city and to hard work went Paul Waffington. He turned over to the paper on his desk and read the paragraph again. It was the column of local items from Tusculum College, of the week preceding the commencement of that institution that was absorbing his attention in the paper just now.
"Mr. L. Texas won the tennis pennant," he read, "who in turn in a beautiful little ceremony presented it to his partner, Miss Gena Filson. " Still a little further down the column another paragraph attracted his attention. The paragraph ended by saying: "It was a beautiful affair. Those who stood together were -- -- and Miss Gena Filson and Mr. L. Texas. " He folded the paper and turned again to his work, with the firm belief in his heart that the man who tried for the hand of Gena Filson had an aggressive and formidable rival.