Peggy-Alone

from the garden wall and joined Alene, who for some time had be

eased anticipation

so so

at

given me money to buy some

ugh rang o

get enough to give each member one red and one white gumdrop. Those

anced w

I'm el

kys and your name is duly inscribed on th

n the white drops!

s in her mouth to taste it, an

d what did s

and so I allowed her to put in a button instead. After it was over, some of us wanted to save the gumdrops for

lene's hand a small

saved, and resolving to leave for another day the blue ribbon-tied box of candy Uncle Fred had given h

ose scarcity perhaps made them seem the more delicious, and exch

's claim to two small sisters and a baby b

ly girl in the

ke

x brothers, four of t

e lost in such a

hen verbal notice was given to assemble at the home of one of the members. The other meetings were whe

ink I see a third," concluded the President, Miss Lee,

ll voice, and Ivy's curly

the wall was not very high, Alene idly wondered why such a

that seemed to choke her, when she saw Ivy coming forward on a pair of slender crutch

e, for she said with a queer, unchildish

"You see I kept 'em on the other side of the wall the other day. I wanted you t

y's words made her feel worse than ever. She wished she c

unfeeling manner; but she learned later that Laura's seeming harshness toward Ivy was only a cloak to hide her sympath

hes on the grass an

e feel so mean to have to beg to get them

t?" inquired Al

s, for she beats them with t

an reach 'em!" said her

ick mop of curls of a blackness that, in some lights, had blue and green shades like the plumage of a bird; her wasted cheeks and brow

nge of mood, holding up an end of Alene's plaid sash. "It's like a

clothes and seldom noticed what those around her wore; that she was dressed

like poetry,"

e some of it-and she keeps a book where she writes all about the sky when the

thought of it one evening when the boarders were at supper; the boys were eating and mother of course too busy to stay with me. Hugh brought in my supper on a tray and hurri

hem, won't you?"

wns and long robes gliding along and little children swimming the river on the back of great swans like in the fairy books. Every evening it changed and at la

on't believe yo

Alene; "and there are some beauti

Big House that rose almost as high as a

over there in the west, to the other side of

Laura come up t

our folk

red and he's no objector. Promise t

hills and

romise," c