Judy of York Hill

t, Judy?" asked Nancy one glorious

"I absolutely forgot about it. Why didn't you remi

has there? And, anyway, we usually concoct something

October air. "Nancy, do come and look at the maple grove, and the oaks and the beeches against that lovely sky, and isn't the vine on Miss Meredith's house simply a

weater and cap and running off to play tennis wit

kept too busy for the consideration of such frivolities as a Friday party, and Nancy

of the "Jolly Susan" foregathered after luncheon in her room. "I begged

and I never laughed so hard in my life as when North House came in. You really ought to have seen them"-this to Jane who had been away for the week-end-"not one of them looked more t

us were the cleve

what are we going to do to-night?

Rosamond put her head in at the door and called, "Lon

ephine vanished down the corridor s

y, and when Judith came upstairs after an early dinner she was still as undecided as ever. The corridor was as busy as the proverbi

with requests the

s, Judy, if you don't wan

t your bla

called Catherine from her room,

ings-on were proceeding. "Every one seems happy but me,"

couldn't be, because she had heard Audrey Green of East House describing a perfectly sweet Hindu costume which her roommate was going to wear. Southerner? How stupid of her! Why not a Vi

lower, confidential tone, "I believe I must have been a bit homesick and didn't know it-there'll be letters and messages, and probably a box, too, from home. Oh, I can hardly wait til

repeated Judi

and sometimes Dad is away for several days visitin

r couldn't spend several days

laughing, "it's a ranch, and it has t

ill thinking of the farms she

m as I ever had until I came here last year. Aren't mothers bricks?" she added with a little catch in her voice. "Mother really needs me, but she just insisted on my coming-she taught me in her spare time until I came here last year, and because spare time wasn't plentiful there are big gaps in what I k

om Virginia," answe

can't go with a sprained ankle. We'd better get busy-there isn't much time left." And Josephine disappeared into her own cu

ships that s

ne like 'J

s well with h

mes they'r

over again, and then the snatches of talk she could hear told Judith that her neighbours were thor

dith felt lonely and homesick. She didn't know how to make her costume; she didn't think of Sally May, and she hated to confess to Josephine-to whom, it must be

ugh her ideas as to angles and triangles were so hazy as to be of no service to her in a geometry class, she was not at all stupid

up a bit and give her a good time." But because she had a generous admiration of Judith's clev

k stockings, buckled shoes (cardboard buckles covered with silver paper),

ral times as high up as you can. Why, whe

hink of anything. But the despised Josephine rose to the occasion: she t

e-your chintz curtains will do for panniers-put on your frilliest blouse and a

ith's pretty hair was piled high and liberally powdered with talcum, and Josephine even produced a tiny bit of rouge and a black patch, and insis

d Josephine been that Judith had quite a little triumph as she entered the hall on her colonel's arm, for she had discarded the spectacles she wore during school hours, and the powder and rouge h

toxicating happiness to the Pierrots and Pierrettes, gypsies and Arabs, Spanish dancers and flower girls, Elizabethan ladies and cavalie

ments paid her was glad to be able to say with honest admiratio

instead of tears she smiled happily and whispered, "What a lot of nice people there are in the world, mummy, de