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Once within the cool shadows of the livingrooht herself to kiss her niece in a fresh gloelcoan enthusiastically

expressing her unbounded enjoy her journey Suddenly the elder woly, "Why, I had cootten You have

not yet met your room-mate Come out here, Naida; this is irl thus addressed advanced, a slender, graceful figure dressed in

white, and extended her hand shyly Miss Spencer clasped it warmly,

her eyes upon the flushed, winsome face

"And is this Naida Gillis!" she cried "I ahted that you are

still here, and that we are to be together Aunt Lydia has written so

much about you that I feel as If we must have known each other for

years Why, how pretty you are!"

Naida's cheeks were burning, and her eyes fell, but she had never yet

succeeded in conquering the blunt independence of her speech "Nobody

else ever says so," she said, uneasily "Perhaps it's the light"

Miss Spencer turned her about so as to face the"Well, you

are," she announced, decisively "I guess I know; you 've got

nificent hair, and your eyes are perfectly wonderful You just

don't fix yourself up right; Aunt Lydia never did have any taste in

such things, but I 'll o upstairs;