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However, though Dr Bowot very little satisfaction out of his call that evening, it did not discourage him in the least, and Julia Cloud decided that extreme measures were necessary to rid the week; only there's the Christian Endeavor banquet," said Leslie "We couldn't be away froone up to college this week to live She's doing office work there, and she'll be alone on Thanksgiving Day"

"Yes, and there's Howard I thought we'd have him here," put in Allison dubiously

"Of course!" said Julia Cloud detero away, anyway You children run up to your roo and study Stay there, I mean, no matter who comes Do you understand?"

With a curious look at her they both obeyed; and a little later, when the knocker sounded through the house, they sat silently above, not daring to move, and heard their aunt open the door, heard Dr Bowman's slow, scholarly voice and Julia Cloud's even tones, back and forth for a little while, and then heard the front door open and shut again, and slow steps go down the brick terrace and out to the sidewalk

What passed in that interview no one ever knew Julia Cloud came to the foot of the stairs, and called the and confident as she sat by the lamp and sehile they studied and joked in front of the fire; but the unwelcouest came no more, and whenever theyat a college gaave them a distant, pleasant bow; that was all Julia Cloud had done the ell, however she had done it The little Bowmans need not look to her to fill their mother's place, for she was not soon, and the little pink-and-white house was beco the members of the Christian Endeavor Society of the little brick church Many an evening specially picked groups of girls or boys or both spent before that fire, playing galee-club caain it was the football team that was feasted Another time Allison's frat came for his birthday, aided and abetted by his sister and aunt

Jane Bristol becah not so frequent as they would have liked to have her, for her time was very much taken up with her work and her studies Julia Cloud often wished sheshoulders and s easier for her, both for her own sake and Leslie's, ould have liked to make her her constant companion; but Jane Bristol was too independent to let anybody help her, and there see about it Meantime, Myrtle Villers i excuses to get away fro Leslie was so dear, but she was also self-willed And she would go off with that wild girl in the car for long rides Not that Julia Cloud worried about the driving; for Leslie was most careful, and handled a car as if she had been born with the knowledge, as indeed she did all things athletic; but her aunt distrusted the other girl