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Often she and Cherry, instead of getting a hot lunch at home, would put up the most delectable lunch in paper boxes, and when the children caht down to the canoe and spend two delightful hours floating up and down the creek and eating an unconscionable number of sandwiches and cakes This happened most often on Wednesdays, when the children had no classes from eleven o'clock until three and there was time to take the noon hour in a leisurely way Not even cool weather coloves were requisitioned, and the open-air lunches went on just the same One day they took a pot of hot soup and three sreat rocks, and, cliave their soup another little touch of heat before they ate it Such experiences welded their hearts ether, and Julia Cloud ca people who had taken her for their s that they talked over serious probleirls' sororities, what they should do about the next Christian Endeavor , why it was that Howard Letchworth and Jane Bristol were sothan any of their other friends, why Cloudy did not like to have Myrtle Villers co to do in life when he got through with college They were absolutely one in all their thoughts and wishes just at this ti that any one of thely talk over with the others It was a beautiful relation, and one that Julia Cloud daily, tre to break it up

By this tie mates to the house, and everybody up there was crazy for an invitation to the little lunches and dinners and pleasant evening gatherings that had begun to be so popular There were not wanting the usual "boy-crazy" girls, ent eagerly trailing Allison, literally begging hi up to Julia Cloud and Leslie in the irl fashions

And of these Myrtle Villers was at once the most subtle and least attractive Julia Cloud had an intuitive shrinking froh she tried in her sweet, Christian way to overco to do for all the others who came into their home But Myrtle Villers was quick to understand, and played her part so well that it was iht have been shaken She studied Leslie like an artist, and learned how to play upon her frank, e the sorrows of an unloved life, and her longings for great and better things, and fell to attending Christian Endeavorho around in the way