Molly Brown's Junior Days

ow voices, and when they went down to the early dinner locked the door and took the key with them. Later, fearing callers, again they hung out a Busy sign and settled themselves comf

be an avenue for bands of roving and irrelevant thoughts and refused to concentrate on the work at hand. She made several beginnings, as: "One blustering, windy day in M

, she paused to con

house, No. 11.' Oh, dear," pondered Molly, "one has to tell something very important to write in that way. It's like sending a telegram. Just as much as possible expressed in the fewest possible words. Can the professor mean that? Would he mind if I asked him and then at

ote of authority in the double rap. Some instinct prevented Nance from calling out "Come in," a matter later for self-congratulation. She rose and opened the door and President Walker entered. If Miss Walker had ever paid a visi

startled face to the other, "but I shall not keep you long.

straight," thought Na

ker?" asked Molly, pushing fo

idered it would be, decidedly so. But Molly, a slave to the laws of hospitality, took what might be called a leap in the dark and silently held the plate in front

said. "Did you ma

Miss W

with Molly, who had no way to know

t recipe. What m

lted brown sugar. It's very easy," added Molly, forming a resolution

apartment with you?" asked Miss Walke

ia K

re is sh

hesi

in bed to-day

old, I s

n anything else," put in

Viola,' of course,"

inued Molly, "and Judy is so excitable and sensitive

s. Even professionals have been known to forget their parts. Ellen Terry is q

wondered what in the world

what happe

ed at her

ed next?" re

and tell me the whole th

t of the window. This is what had been familiar

Walker?" asked Nance with a surpris

sternly, "where you were between tw

of the fact that when President Walker made a direct question s

lo

es

girls went rowing on the lake alone

lly quake in her boots, but Nance was

ade. We did it because

hy

t looked as if Miss Walker must be told abo

announced a hoarse

usly, but if Molly and Nance had been more observant they would have noti

ttering feverishly, came trailing into the room. In one hand she grasped Nance

to be alone. Water always comforts me. You see, I was born at sea, and I took a canoe from the boat house and paddled into the middle of the lake. Then those two Sweet Spirits of Niter ca

exclaimed Miss Walker, sm

ance flying for the doctor. Presently, when Judy had dropped off

d Molly's waist and drawing her down on the arm of the cha

I started to dress. You see, we thought she had gone to bed. I hadn't thought of the lake, either. It was just as if I was walking

range!" said

kissed her. There were tears on the Presid

a moment, "you remind me of my dear

sor and been frightened. They talked of Judy's temperament and of what kind of mental training Judy should have to learn to control her wild spirits. From that the talk drifted to Molly's affairs, and then she asked the President t

the President and Molly in close converse over th

talk lasts as long as the tea lasts, and

," said Miss Walker, "and we'll save

ot disturbed ove

ade her go a bit daffy," he said. "Keep her

taining the President of Wellington and Dr. McLean at tea. The news spread quickly along the corridor and when the distinguished guests p

t it afterward, because she was not popular with the Quadrangle girls and had formed her associations with some freshmen in the vi

ishly gay. Molly made Miss Walker a box of cloudbursts before she went to bed, while Nance read aloud a thrill

hen the story was finished, "how do yo

a matter of fact voice. "There was never any doubt in

ed Molly, t

urying the slipper and I suppose he

on Judith Blount when she cut the elec

ong as rowing on the lake with boys fro

e were going to pitch it with all her force across

ppointed,