arly good and Helen praised her highly. Hester was brimming with enthusiasm. The one fly in her cup of ointment was that Aunt Debby could not see her play, for the games of the subst

generally resulted in a foul being called on her own team. Consequently her good pla

ll. The day before Thanksgiving an extra practice was c

rgiven Hester for her attitude in the first game of the year, kept the ball as m

called time. "Hester plays well at passing. Give her a show. You dribble and dri

ders; her bead-like eyes sn

nice is determined not to play ball into your hands. It's pure jealousy. Do some playing, Hest

ly was the ball in air, before it was in her hand, and she was moving toward the goal. Her guard was upon her, but by a quick movement, Berenice and the ball slipped under th

elen, "and we have played scarcely ten minutes." She tosse

sition before the goal, but Berenice wou

e against me. How

o answer. Renee, who was just an

uss and holding back the game. You are the only one on the squad who cannot play an

nothing to be done except to obey. Already

it was evident that Berenice in spite of her brilliant playing, had been a drag on the game. Befor

d the basket and might have made a goal, but she was short while Hester was tall and quick in movement. Those considerations came to the girl, and quick as a flash she passed the ball

o tell whether it were luck or skill. But in the second half of the game, Hester pitched a goal from every ball which was passed to h

in comparison to the congratulations of the gir

rma in her high excited tones. "Remember

was Helen's quiet commendation, when after all the

ed a number during my three years. If you do as well the next game, I'll substitute you on the sc

led then as substitute on the

best. I will not risk a game even for friends

quietly. Helen's calmness had always the eff

n that other powers than one's

On these trips to the seminaries and normals, they were treated royally. Hester could imagine nothing finer than being

that of the laurel wreaths of the Olympiads. In order to put up the best game possible, Helen attended every skirmish and practice, determined that he

k and placing it in the cushion which stood on her dresser. There was a possibility of its being knocked off, or being caught in ribbon and ties, and so might have been dropped somewhere. She began a systematic search. One day, she emptied the drawers in the dresser and examined ev

s on his knees to do penance? I have passed your door twice and e

pin. I am si

a few gentle hints to your friends. Tell them you have lost your pin. They would be very stupid not to understand that it was

nted them to the king, and was immediately restored to favor. Two stones of the collection were pushed aside as not worthy so great a ruler. Tourie Loraine kept these for himself and had them made into rings. Later the rings were made into earrings. I think that was done by my great-grand

oved romance either in real life

ily. My people did nothing more exciting than write charters and fight Indians. I think we were very commonplace. It

e merest accident, that they were yellow diamonds and very valuable, on account of their size and purity. They were not

ine nothing to be sorry for in finding that what you thought was

clothed her and trained her to be an excellent servant. When she was able to work, Aunt Harriet paid her wages. She learned the value of Aunt Harriet's pins and rings. She disappeared and the jewels with her. There were a whole lot of complications

r to know. She could have sat there all day to lis

happened and not be found sometime. It is not an easy matt

ersation. As Helen finished, her roommate ca

ily history. It is worth writing to make a story. Don't you know

ere. As Aunt Debby says, they fulfilled their duty to their church and to t

d Erma. "Surely there must be someth

d reared her. That was all the knowledge that came to them. When other girls talked together of what their parents and grandparents had done as children and repeated the old-time stories, which had been handed down to them as part of their fam

rible death. Aunt Debby took me. She never could talk of my parents, so I k

t know. I would not have

ulders and touched her lips warmly and affectionately. "But you have friends. I want to be

"I'd love to have you for a friend. Aunt Debby is always first, fo

have continued, had not Renee at th

Geometry, Helen? Did you get that original? Have you really? Isn't t

original, handed it to Renee who, sitting down, began a th

brilliance or alertness, they spoke of sentiment and dreaminess. Josephine had made a study of looking so. Soulful, she

eyes from the paper which she had been studying on, and cried brusquely, "If someone would o

ed sweetly and serenely. No matter what was said to her, or done in her presence, that smile came to her. Her placidity was exceedingly annoying to this set of girls. "If Jo was not always so sugary sweet," was the g

ng you?" she asked Helen. "

t worn it, and how it had mysteriously disappeared. Both Jo and Renee had seen

ave Doctor Weldon announce it in chapel; and put a notice on the bulletin

it outside this room. I

anything. I've noticed, howeve

now how you feel about such matters. You have so much sentiment. I know what trifles may mean to one. I always wear this little chain. I have worn it since I was three ye

waist which some dear departed chum had embroidered for you; or perhaps she buttoned it up the back the first time you wore it and died immediately aft

ong. While she had been speaking,

d fluttered about like a gay butterfly. She thought Renee's sarcasm was the finest wit in the world. If it had bee

ee laughs at sentiment," she said. "What is it that Shakespea

e ones made by a tin soldier with a toy pistol. It will t

her heels coming down with some show of feel

ant things? I often wished I could be witty. All I ca

ed Josephine. "You're so sw

. "I must go and tell Mame. She has known me for

away. Jo y

ar with Aunt Harriet and you and I are invited to take a ride and then have dinner down in the city. Aunt Harriet

at her but there comes to my mind the picture o

dull with her. She has a sorrow which passes comprehension, yet, she never wo

out the room. "Two days until Saturday. I wond

down the corridor, a number of the girls spoke to Helen about the loss of her

e of this. "It was so peculiar and unusual th

Helen then that her little roommate had shown no interest whatever and h