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he unusualest place and it is filled with quaint homes and the most interesting people. Our relatives are among the most aristocratic and Aunt Achsa, she wants me to call her that, is of the proudest blood of Cape Cod. She is very nice to me and asks a great many qu

we will be very good friends. She is not at all like Nancy which I am gl

e to me an awful lot though and please send all of Vick's letters to me so that I will know what she's doing just as though I was home, and Trud

ister,

Trude read Sidney's letter aloud to Is

" Trude asked, slow

n? I'm glad the child's

know how Sid usually writes and talks. It's too

d troubled her not a little at letting Sidney go off alone among strangers,

safe, and we're almost packed and our tickets are bought-it isn't going to do anyone a bit of good, now, to upset all our plans and bring Sid home. Th

going out on boats with a ha

n luxury may not spoil her for her own poor home-make her dissatisfied. She is pro

etter as though to find someth

her in every letter to be careful around the boats. And not to get her head turned by our relatives' high estate, either. Isn't it funny, Issy,

urned her attention to her box. She lifted out a small

are y

floor between the two girls. Trude picked it

se letters-" exclaime

I know it. I-I couldn't b

on't care anything

If you like things in a person very much you just have to keep on liking them no matter what happens. And, I

e must have led you on to think things. And all the time he was

e had had to say before about this man; every fibre of her being shrank from

suppose it's because they are the only letters I've ever had from a man-but I see my mistake now. I will destroy

Whites'-some perfectly grand man. I s

some of Uncle Jasper's friends," she explained. "They are mostly nice, fat settled bankers and

hance have you and I, shut up here, to know the kind of men we'd-we'd like to know? Do you think I enjoy the namby-p

afraid of being an old maid-I've always sort of known I'd be one-but I catch myself just longing to do something with my life, different-as little Sid put it. Then I chas

ealousy. I am not as noble as you are, Trude. It is hard to think that you and I have t

eve of a holiday. They're too rare to spoil. And two trunks still to pack. Do you think the Leaguers will mind

am beginning to think it's the limit that we have to consider the League in even a little thing like that.

Rather she went out and got it. And it surely will to Vick, new clothes if nothing

rude that she did n