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Miss Rutledge wouldn't listen, either." "I don't think either President Blakesly or Miss Rutledge would refuse to listen to anything that had to do with one student's attempt to injure another," was Jane's grave response. "However, that is not the point.
As they entered the meadow he paused and said with humorous irresolution, "I don't know what I am out here for." "To see the pretty girls, of course," said Mrs. Blakesly. "They may be plain, after all," he said. "They're always pretty at graduation time and at marriage," Blakesly interpreted. "Then there's the ice cream and cake," Mrs. Blakesly added. "Where do all these people come from?"
Blakesly and one of the other teachers. There was a dancing light in Mrs. Blakesly's eyes as she looked at Ware. She had just been saying to her husband: "What a splendid figure Miss Powell is! How well they look together! Wouldn't it be splendid if " "Oh, my dear, you're too bad. Please don't match-make any more to-day. Let Nature attend to these things," Mr.
Blakesly replied with manifest impatience; "Nature attended to our case." "I have no faith in Nature any more. I want to have at least a finger in the pie myself. Nature don't work in all cases. I'm afraid Nature can't in his case." "Careful! He'll hear you, my dear." "Where do we go now, Miss Powell?" asked Blakesly as they came to a halt on the opposite side of the campus.
"But I would like to know whether she carried treasure." However, it was impossible to discover this, and dangerous to look too far into the interior. So Tom and his party were forced to leave without discovering the secret of the Blakesly, if she possessed one. Later, however, when they had returned home, Tom and Ned made a report of what they had seen, and so cleared up the fate of the vessel.
She was showing him the view from the windows, and they seemed to be perfectly absorbed. She looked around once and saw that Mrs. Blakesly was showing her husband something in the farther end of the room. After that she did not think of them. The sun went lower in the sky and flamed along the sward.
The company passed out into other rooms until no one was left but Mrs. Blakesly, the professor, and Ware. Miss Powell was talking again, and to Ware mainly. Ware was thoughtful, Miss Powell radiant. "I didn't know what life was till I could do that." She took up a large dumb-bell and, extending it at arm's length, whirled it back and forth.
"You can't make me tell you. You'll never know from me." "I was sure you wouldn't answer." Jane smiled scornfully. "I asked you merely because I wanted to call your attention to both instances. That's all. I'm sorry we can not settle this affair quietly. If you will kindly stand aside, Alicia will unlock the door." "I you mustn't tell President Blakesly!"
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