Molly Brown's College Friends

r, while her brilliant mother made occasional hurried and preoccupied visits to them. There had been a time when Nance had felt bitterly towards her mother because she wa

should never have been born; but now that she was born she intended to make the best of it. The fa

soul of a house; and now in place of the blank uncurtained windows of old days, Molly's genial hospitality and kindness seemed to look out from every pane of glass. The college girls named Mrs. Edwin Gr

her. I believe the college would simply

he Square Deal." There Molly administered advice and love and sympathy with absolute impart

y simply don't regard money one way or the other in their judgment of persons. Now most social workers think of the rich as necessary evils in the way of pocketb

was to do with, but she felt anything was preferable to coming out into society in

st at the Square Deal as did m

seeing Molly alone

termed a "mash" on Mrs. Green. Molly, being totally unaware of t

nough of her to put on mourning," asserted Lilian Swift as she peeped in the mirror over the mantel to adjust

nt bereavement. The "Would-be Authors" was now a flourishing organization with a waiting list that almost stretched around the campus. They met together for mutual benefit and encouragement and sometimes for discouragement. The o

t out before her whole wig stuck together," said Molly as she came in with Dodo in her arms and Mildred trottin

ed at one anot

she could divine their thoughts. "She has had a hard time and sh

her mother and father, of her thwarted amb

not to wear mourning for

that she did not put on mourning. Her father disliked it, her mother could not abide it, and as she said, it meant a new outfit which she cou

but Lilian was a person who always spoke her mind no matter what was involv

ile she is being so unselfish about her clothes, why do

about

meeting because she i

-day and declares she will go back to Vermont if I dare make a single change in my way of

ance!" cried

room just as Billi

for me, if I'm the Nance.

n and can come to our literary club this

scribbler," d

blers it is well to have one sane person willing to compose the au

m more than willing," smiled Nance a

myself on my college themes," laughed Molly. "What I flattered myself

love, Mary Neil jumped up so suddenly that she upset little Mildred, who wa

rth!" excla

Mary,-that's all,

ry!" said Lilian, get

ibblers!" la

comforted and in a short while

d Nance as they settled to the delights of a twilight chat, while Nance busily plied her kni

ve no

er said a single word while all of us were chatting. Then the moment you gave me

ate to think

e. Didn't you know she

be beau-crazy than have these silly cases with other

may

and put my hair up in curl pap

ter than some person's best that that might no

e never were that foolish. I can't remember anyone

Adele Windsor. Do you remember when poor Ju

peals of laughter just as Mrs. McLean

hands in a strong grasp and drew the girl towards her. "I am glad to see you, my dea

ely. I thank you so m

dy McLean but did not know how to begin. She shrank from prying into her guest's affairs, b

Andy," said his fond mother. "I k

ce tried to go on with her knitting, but I am a

New York where he was doing so splendidly an

nvoluntarily

d!" crie

Of course, the States will be at war before the month is out and Andy might wait and enlist with his

before he sails, wil

may spend a m

be splend

es that sprang from the wood fir

the news of my Andy and to see this little friend again. C

door closed on their visitor. Katy, the Irish nurse, had come for

ling gi

it to his mother. If I am

ow can yo

th. He will have to se

coul

was over for good and all; and he couldn't have

-do you

ain the flickering fire

thing to him bu

,-but he said the t

said worse than th

ndependent head, "I gave h

e said hurt, and with your superior knowledge of what

warfare under those principles, what would become of us? Germany hit first and France and Belgium k

many and France didn't love on

and tried to go on with her knitting. Molly thought in

ou and And

as soon as he learned of Father's death and seemed to think I could pick right up and marry him, and when I objected to such unseemly haste he said I had been flirting with h

ung d

e-

was he-a

en Andy came, Mother had just told me that she never expected to leave me again. I never did have a chance to tell this to him, he was so angry and so jealous. He wanted

ot know of your en

terwards, when I nursed her through all those months, she was so softened if I had had

nce!" said M

Andy and made him take back all the things he said, but I am no whiner. It

to say such things and have such things said to one, and

g these two estranged lovers together, and determined to frus

anyone. It is something that is hopelessly mixed up and my

o care

ared for Andy enough to engage myself to him, I could not g

dly. "But if you love Andy

er you have