Phyllis: A Twin

the next morning at breakfast to greet her niece. P

ng to wait," she sai

r the rest of their lives, I hope," Auntie Mogs finished

hyllis laughed. "I'm never going to get marri

picked up her newspaper to hide the amus

ntentedly. It was a charming room, and the fire bla

I adore them. They are such fun and much more sensible than most girls, but I wouldn't admit that to any one but you, Aun

laughed. "Boys are-but there goes the telephone.

rom the table and h

" she exclaimed. But a minute later her aunt hear

Muriel; this

of you; of co

it too excit

e'll both be t

'll see you this after

over this afternoon. They want to talk over some class plans and they want my advice. We have class officers this yea

I hope it won't be too awfully low." She paused

net may never have been to a school but she is very bright, and I

probably hasn't had the same kind of lessons that I have. Anyway, we will soon know, and even if she goes into the v

mory of her independent little niece who, for all her q

she added, smiling, "is whether

ed at her in

hey are all, or nearly all, awfully nice an

ble. She had given Phyllis a new idea

and finish your shopping with me. When Janet comes I don't want to think of anyth

that it burned her throat. "Won't it be fun, taking Janet to all

n they are spent in shopping, and Phyllis was barely

t plump girl of fourteen, with lots of fl

you terribly at school. It isn't a bit nice wi

sed you too. Sit down and tell me all the news-oh, wait

eir backs and were both tied with bright green ribbons to match their green tams. They were not sisters, but they

were great fun, and their endless ideas we

," Rosamond greeted. "Couldn

us to remain after class as

dly. It was fun seeing the girls again, and she realized for the fir

" she laughed. "Is she

she is," Rosamond groaned. "I can t

ckname for Miss Baxter, the mathemat

re say anything about your twin until she got here. She doesn't want to miss a word. Of course we're all f

I've only talked to her over the phone since I got back, and you a

ings and doings, and then she looked suddenly grave. "Do you know she

he world get along without her,"

first time. "I think we could. Sally's ni

ed in surprise

any different," Phyllis said, and the two girls nodde

eeks glowed. She had deep blue eyes that flashed and sparkled behind long black lashes, her hair was black as a raven's wing, and she

siastically. "I thought I was never going to see

t. Gracious sakes, it's thrilling enough to get a new baby sister but to find a grown-up t

. She was a lit

ou know," she con

that she's a beauty." Sally settled the q

ou, Phyl?" Ele

e around that it looks as though she were bashful, but she really isn't a bit. She just never sa

ughed, and M

en to? One up there in

riel? She was being disagreeable and not at all

hool," she said quietly, "s

at means she will know twice as

at Sally always appealed to in moments of excitement. Ph

feel that I am back at school and that Old Che

st place she is just the sort of girl we need at school," Sally spoke seriously. "We have been the same lot of girls for, well three yea

in our class,

l that it is time we were acting a little older and not so like tomboys." She looked meaningly at Sally. "We have officers t

and Rosamond. All three looked surprised an

re dignified! Bless us. Muriel,

ore grown up and serious." Muriel's feeling

leanor announced with conviction, "and I for one

hair up on top of our heads,"-Phyllis laughed good naturedly

now but her eyes had danced mischievously. "You none o

ously. "He takes her home from school and he carries her books, so of course she has

. There was no denying t

with what she hoped was becoming dignity, and in silence the girls w

been such chums, I can't bear to see you so

ep up with me," she said coldly, a

she said wistfully, but a sudden thought made he

time to-morrow Janet will actuall

parrot, so she w