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My, but you got to drop, and stick, and pull a lot before it's five dollars' worth." "Would you like to come in and see Elnora's gifts?" "Yes, ma'am!" said Billy, trying to stand quietly. "Gee-mentley!" he gasped. "Does Elnora get all this?" "Yes." "I bet you a thousand dollars I be first in my class when I graduate. Say, have the others got a lot more than Elnora?" "I think not."
She speculated on where the piece Elnora's class would buy could be placed to advantage. Then she wondered if they were having a large enough audience to buy marble. She liked it better than the bronze, but it looked as if it cost more. How white the broad stairway was! Elnora had been climbing those stairs for years and never told her they were marble. Of course, she thought they were wood.
"You may pay your tuition quarterly. You need not bother about the first instalment this month. Any time in October will do." It seemed as if Elnora's gasp of relief must have reached the soles of her brogans. "Did any one ever tell you how beautiful you are!" she cried. As the professor was lank, tow-haired and so near-sighted, that he peered at his pupils through spectacles, no one ever had.
"I object," said the man emphatically. He stopped work again and studied Elnora. Even the watching mother could not blame him. In the shade of the bridge Elnora's bright head and her lavender dress made a picture worthy of much contemplation. "I object!" repeated the man. "When I work I want to see results.
"Yes," said Elnora. "I remember the place and a story about it, now. You entered the high school yesterday?" "Yes." "It was rather bad?" "Rather bad!" echoed Elnora. The Bird Woman laughed. "You can't tell me anything about that," she said. "I once entered a city school straight from the country. My dress was brown calico, and my shoes were heavy." The tears began to roll down Elnora's cheeks.
But you helped me out; Elnora's got the clothes, and by morning, maybe I won't grudge Kate the only laugh she's had in sixteen years. You been showing me the way quite a spell now, ain't you, Maggie?" In her attic Elnora lighted two candles, set them on her little table, stacked the books, and put away the precious clothes.
An hour later there was a light tap on the girl's door. "Come!" she called as she lay staring into the dark. The Angel felt her way to the bedside, sat down and took Elnora's hands. "I just had to come back to you," she said. "I have been telling Freckles, and he is almost hurting himself with laughing. I didn't think it was funny, but he does. He thinks it's the funniest thing that ever happened.
"If you'd seen me sneaking out before dawn, not to awaken mother and coming in with moths to make her think I'd been to the trees, you'd know it was a most especial occasion." "Then Philip understood two things: Elnora's mother did not know of the early morning trip to the city, and the girl had come to meet him to tell him so.
The work seemed to Sinton as if she might be engaged in putting a tuck in a petticoat. He thought of how Margaret had shortened Elnora's dress to the accepted length for girls of her age, and made a mental note of Mrs. Comstock's occupation. She dropped her work on her lap, laid her hands on it and looked into his face with a sneer. "You didn't let any grass grow under your feet," she said.
For the brown-eyed boy whistled, and there was pantomime of all sorts going on behind Elnora's back that day. Happy with her books, no one knew how much she saw, and from her absorption in her studies it was evident she cared too little to notice. After school she went again to the home of the Bird Woman, and together they visited the swamp and carried away more specimens.
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