Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School / Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities

son as the four girls collected in one corner of the lo

ine with her and spend the evening, and the boys are invited for the evenin

"for it's on the way to Mrs. Gray's. Good-bye. Be s

were met at the door by Grace, who had been standing at the window for the

-day. I believe she wants to talk to us about Eleanor Savell. Miss Nevin called on Mrs. Gray yesterday and they were in the parlor together for a long time. After Miss

Nora, who had reached the st

re of this later,

eyes lingered upon Anne, who was plainly her favorite. The old lady had become so accustomed to the sympathetic pr

rily. "I spend most of my time there. The view from the windows is so beaut

aid Grace. "You're not a day older at heart than any of the rest of us. Here, sit do

crotchety, complaining old woman," said Mrs. Gray, allowi

her loyal subjects?" inquired Grace, b

ircle. I want to tell you a little story. That is partly my reason for inviting you

Gray, and does it begin with 'On

y child, but I'll begin it lik

race, who, at eighteen, was as fon

r than the other. The mother of the elder sister had died when she was about fifteen years of age, and two years later the fath

le girl came to them, and the older sister loved the tiny ba

imed Nora. "Only the book people are all kings and queens, b

gh over Nora's remark i

forever, isn't it Nora

g from a popular song she had heard in a recent musical comedy.

later he was killed in a railroad accident, and the elder sister, named Margaret, was left with only little Edith to comfort her. The father had

o Leipsic, and Edith, who had high hopes of one day becoming a concert pianiste, continued her studies under the best instructors that money could procure. Things ran along smoothly until Edith met a yo

nd black hair that go to make an Irish beauty. She returned his love, and after a brief engagement they were marrie

happy ever after?"

was thoroughly selfish at heart. Next to himself, his music was the only thing in the world that he really cared for. When they had been married for about a year and a half he played

n. She wrote him repeatedly, but he never answered her letters, and she was too proud to follow him.

e and Grace exchange

he never received the letter or else paid no attention to it, for she received no reply. She relapsed into a dull, apathetic state, from which the repea

dear Mrs. Gray?" queried Nora eager

, "and the reason that I have told you this long tale

an instant that she had interrupted Mrs. Gray. "She is going to live at 'Heartsease' and-- oh, Mrs.

y. "But how did you happen to meet Ele

stened without comment. When Grace repeated Eleanor's remark about having made up her

talent, but she is frightfully self-willed. Her aunt has spoiled her, and realizes too late the damage she has done by having allowed her to grow up on the continent. They have lived in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, with an occasional visit to America, and

elighted with the whole thing and lost no time in getting here. So now you understand why I have t

hen we saw her the other day," said No

eplied Mrs. Gray. "You won't find her at all disagreeable. But she is reckless, self-willed, defi

pride myself on being a first-clas

"Is it possible that he is the great Sa

irls, never to mention Eleanor's father to her. She has been kept in absolute ignorance of him. When she is twenty-one her aunt will tell her about him. If she knew he was the great Savelli,

is a great musician?" said Jessica. "And why

irresponsible and too temperamental to assume the care of a girl like Eleanor," Mrs. Gray answered. "No, Eleanor is bette

She is almost as remarkable as

any good we shall just have to act as though she were an everyday girl like the rest of us. If we begin to bow down

ed," announced

oom. During the dinner Eleanor was not again mentioned, alt

rolic ensued. It was after ten o'clock before the littl

ood night. Grace nodded sympathetically, but went home with an uneasy feeling