APRIL VISTAS "Is it _possible_?
_Is_ it possible!" Colonel Ramsay's entrances were frequently a bit theatrical, and on a particular afternoon in April, as he opened the door of Dan Harwood's new office in the Law Building, the sight of Miss Farrell at the typewriter moved him to characteristic demonstrations.

Carefully closing the door and advancing, hat in hand, with every appearance of deepest humility, he gazed upon the young woman with a mockery of astonishment.
"Verily, it is possible," he solemnly ejaculated.

"And what is it that our own poet says:-- "'When she comes home again! A thousand ways I fashion to myself the tenderness Of my glad welcome: I shall tremble--yes--'" "Stop trembling, Colonel, and try one of our new office chairs, warranted to hold anybody but Brother Ike Pettit without fading away." The Colonel bent over Miss Farrell's hand reverently and sat down.
"I've been trying to earn an honest living practicing law down at home and this is the first chance I've had to come up and see what the late lamented legislature left of the proud old Hoosier State.

Is Dan locked up inside there with some lucrative client ?" "I regret to say that I don't believe there's a cent in his present caller." "Hark!" At this moment a roar was heard from the inner room on which "private" was printed in discreet letters.

The Colonel was at once alert.
"'Ask me no more; the moon may draw the sea' But Isaac Pettit's jokes shall shake the land,-- with apologies to the late Laureate.