Molly Brown's College Friends

tting you and old Ed know all about us!" said Andy

olly, who was growing dec

lared the happy young doctor. Nance kept her eyes on

Nance?" solemnly a

e're en

lly?" and Ed

her two friends, who were perforce placed across the ta

brandy peaches on the side table all ready for dessert, and don't you know that I know that those precious articles are only brought out on highdays and h

ere going to tell your secret this very evening? I knew I mustn't say a thing until

I believe you are running me a mighty close second," and to the astonishment of his wife, as Edwin Green was certainly a far from demonstrative man, he actuall

-thinking you folks had better sort yo's

ixed up in the promiscuous embracing that had been going on, and Edwin and Andy had changed places. Edwin found

ed immediately," an

he past and living in the present while the fire had died so

ty bad leaving her, but then the war can't last forever, and I have decided it is my duty to go help, and I fanc

mistaken. If it is your duty to go help, it is my duty, too. Oh, I know I am no trained nurs

mentioned Dr. Flint. Only suppose it ha

he accepted lover. "Oh, Na

d cook and take

about that,"

them out of the water when I let them

n more than he had done before. But although Molly was a very careful housekeeper and most particular about the looks of

dness and confinement spent in nursing her father and mother were forgotten. Nance had come into her own-her woman's heritage: to be beloved, to be guarded and cherished; at the same time to know that she was to be the c

om for drones and unproductive consumers in that war-worn country. She knew that in marrying Andy and going with his u

they lounged in the den and puffed away at their comforting pipes, "but I feel that

clared," sighed Edwin. "By jiminy! I hate m

w with a wife and two chil

re good enough eyes in glasses and my bald head would be no drawback." Edwin always would call his sparsely covered top "bald," but Molly, by diligent care, had made t

y go, if it were pu

, though! It wo

ut up to her, I b