Bellefonte, Pa., January 10, 1913.
A Girl of the Limberlost.
[Continued from page 6, Col. 4.]
team and entertaining Billy and en-
tered the swamp.
Elnora and Pete had left a wide trail
behind them. Before Sinton bad
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Elnora’s safety. She had him on his |
knees digging pupae cases for her from
the loose swamp loam.
“Elnora!” called Sinton. “Elnora!”
“Oh, Uncle Wesley,”
we have three pupae cases. It's much
harder to get the cases because you
have to dig for them, and you can't
see where to look. But Pete is fine at
it. He's found three, and be says he
will keep watch along the roads and
through the woods as he hunts. Isn't
that splendid of him? Uncle Wesley.
there is a college over there on the
western edge of the swamp. Look
closely and you can see the great dome
up among the clouds.”
“1 should say you have bad luck,”
said Sinton, striving to make his voice
natural. “But | thought you were not
coming to the swamp?”
“Well, | wasn't,” said Elnora, "but
I couldn't find many anywhere else, |
honest | couldn't, and just as soon as
1 came to the edge 1 began to see
them bhere.r | kept my promise, |
didn't come ip alone. Pete came with
me. He's so strong. He Isn't afraid
of anything, and he's perfectly splen-
did to locate cocoons. He's found half
of these. Come on, Pete. It's getting
dark now, and we must go.”
They started for the trail, Pete car-
rying the cocoons. He left them at
the case, while Elnora and Sinton
went on to the carriage together.
“Elnora Comstock, what does this
mean?’ demanded her mother,
“It's all right. One of the neighbors
was with her, and she got several dol-
lars’ worth of stuff.” interposed Sin-
ton.
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CHAPTER XIL
Wherein Elnora Discovers a Vielin and
Billy Discipiines Margaret.
LNORA missed the little figure
at the bridge the next morning.
She slowly walked up the
i street and turned in at the
wide entrance to the school grounds
She scarcely could comprehend that
only a week ago she had gone there
friendless, alone, and so sick at heart
that she was physically fll. Today she
| had decent clothing, books, friends and
ber mind was at ease to work on her
studies.
As she approached home that night
the girl paused in amazement. Her
mother bad company, and she was
laughing. Elnora entered the kitchen
softly and peeped Into the sitting room.
Mrs Comstock sat in her chair hold-
ing n book and every few seconds a
soft chuckle broke into a real laugh.
Mark Twain was doing his work, while
Mrs. Comstock was not lacking in a
sense of humor. Elnora entered the
room before her mother saw her. Mrs.
Comstock looked up with flushed face.
“Where did you get this?" she de-
manded.
“I bought it,” said Elnora.
“Bought it! With all the taxes due!
“1 paid for it out of my Indian mon-
ey, mother,” sald Elnora. *I couldn't
bear to spend so much on myself and
nothing at all on you. I was afraid tv
buy the dress | should have liked to,
and 1 thought :he book would be com-
pany while | was gone. | haven't
read it, but 1 do Lope it's good.”
“Good! It's ihe biggest plece of
foolishness | have read in all my life.
I've laughed all day ever since I found
it. I had a notion to go out and read
some of it to the cows and see if they
wouldn't laugh.”
“If it made you laugh, it's a wise
book.” said Elnora.
“Wise!” cried Mrs. Comstock. “You
can stake your life it's a wise book. It
takes the smartest man there is to do
this kind of fooling.” And she began
laughing again.
Elnora, highly satisfied with her pur
| chase. went to her room and put on
| her working clothes. Thereafter she
| made a point of getting a book that
she thought would interest her mother
from the library every week and leav-
ing it on the sitting room table. Every
night she carried home at least two
gchoolbooks and studied until she had
mastered the points of each lesson.
| She did her share of the work faith
fully, and every available minute she
| was in the fields searching for cocoons,
| for the moths promised to become her
best source of income.
She gathered large baskets of nests,
| flowers, mosses, insects and all sorts
| of natural history specimens and sold
| them to the grade teachers. At first
| she tried to tell these instructors what
| to teach their pupils about the speci:
| mens, but, recognizing how much
! more she knew than they, one after
| another begged her to study at home
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school orchestra Elnora’s heart almost
what it wns that literally burt her
heart, and at last she knew. It was
the talking of the violins. They were
human voices. and they spoke a lan-
guage Elnora understood. It seemed
to her that she must climb up on the
stage, take the instruments from the
fingers of the players and make them
speak what was in her heart. She
fairly prayed to get hoid of one, if only
for a second
That night she said to her mother:
“I am perfectly crazy for a violin, I
am sure | could play one; sure as |
live. Did any one”"— Elnora never
completed that sentence.
“Hush!” thundered Mrs. Comstock.
“Be quiet. Never mention those things
before me again—never as long as you
live. [I loathe them. They are a snare
of the very devil himself. They were
made to lure men and women from
their homes and their honor. If ever I
see you with one in your fingers I will
smash it in pleces.”
Naturally Elnora hushed, but she
thought of nothing else after she had
done justice to her lessons. At last
there came a day when for some rea-
son the leader of the orchestra left his
violin on the grand piano, That morn-
ing Elnora made her first mistake in
algebra. At noon, as soon as the
great building was empty, she slipped
into the auditorium, found the side
door which led to the stage, and, go-
ing through the musicians’ entrance,
she took the violin She carried it
back into the little side room where
the orchestra assembled. closed ail the
doors. opened the case and lifted out
the instrument
She laid it on her breast, dropped her
chin on it und drew the bow softly
across the strings. One after another
she tested the open notes. They re-
minded ber of things. Gradually her
stroke ceased to tremble and she drew
the bow firmly Then her fingers be-
gan to fall, and softly. slowly she
searched up und down those strings for
sounds she knew. Standing in the
middle of the floor, she tried over and
over. [It seemned scarcely a minute be-
fore the hall was tilled with the sound
of hurrying feet, and she was forced
to put away the violin and go to her
classes. Of food she never thought un-
til she noticed how heavy her lunch
box was on the way home, so she sat
on the log by the swamp and remedied
that. The next day she prayed that
the violin would be left again, but her
petition wus vot answered.
‘I'hat night when she returned from
the school she made an excuse to go
down to see Billy. He was engaged in
hulllng walnuts by driving them
through holes in a board. His hands
were protected by a pair of Margaret's
old gloves, but he had speckled his
face generously, He looked well and
greeted Elnora hilariously.
“Me an’ the squirrels are laying up
our winter stores!” he shouted. *’'Cos
the cold is coming. an’ the snow, an’ if
we have any nuts we have to fix ‘em
now. But I'm ahead. 'cos Uncle Wes-
ley made me this board, and I cau hull
a big plle while the old squirrel does
only ist one with his teeth.”
Elnora picked him up and kissed him.
“Billy, are you happy?" she asked
“Yes, and so's Snap,” answered Billy.
“You ought to see him make the dirt
fly when he gets after a chipmunk.”
He espied Wesley and ran to show
him a walnut too big to go through the
holes. and Elnora and Margaret went
into the house.
[Continued next week.)
Wellesley College in Lead.
Wellesley college is said to have
more graduates in the mission field
than any other woman's college in
this country. Gertrude Chandler, of
the clas: of 1879, now Mrs. Mychoff,
was the first Wellesley missionary in
the field. She went to Bombay imme-
diately after taking aer degree in the
first class graduated from Wellesley.
The college is represented in the mis-
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There are Wellesley missionaries sc: t- :
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Explaining an Oversight.
“George,” she said sweetly, “didn’t
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“Of course I did,” he replied.
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