Bab: A Sub-Deb

count of a meeting with any celebrity we happened to meet during the summer. I

celebrated nor interesting, there

cher this summer, I have

at Woodbury, N. J. Attended public high schools,

w York, called Her Soul. Followed this b

h but twenty-six years of age, his hair on close inspection reveals here and there a silver thread. Hi

had them at school, but they never sit at the Junior's table. Also, they are seldom connected wi

a cottage across the bay from ours, and to ask the privilege of sitting at her feet for a few hours, basking in the sunshine

rts in which t

masterpiece i

f Buck

s therefore done. She has passed her active years, and I consider that it is not the past of American L

and fixed in my ways, and with me to decide to do a thing is to decide to do it. I am not of a romantic nature, however, and as I learned of the dangers of the theater,

ravity of life, and its bitterness and disappointments, I t

rld is

man must p

ne a s

stic and sad. I remember that I saw the first one three years ago, when a

n narrowness of view on the part of the faculty prevented it being the class play. If I may be permitt

asure only, I decided to write a play during the summer. I would thus be improving my vacation hours, and, I considered, keeping out of mischie

ved that the devil would give me u

we can read

nocent, and that I was obeying orders and securing material for a theme. I consider that the attitude of my family is wrong and cruel, and that my sister Leila, being only 20 months

g girl of the train can have been! So much that is tragic has since happened. If I had not had a cinder in my eye thi

t see what harm there was in our chatting together after that, especially as we said nothing to object to. But father looked very disagreea

more careful, Bab," he s

's not doing things, but be

n your con

man, father," I observed,

rbara! Your

ublesome. But it is only me. And I warn you, here and now, that I expect to be thrilled at

ty dollars, and agreed to say nothing about the young man to mother, if I would

hall for me, but she hel

hanged your clothing, Barbara,"

epidemic which ravaged us last June, and changed us fro

anyhow, thank goodness. I had been hinting all spring for new furniture, but my family do

makes her debut before giving her a

s there, and I kissed her. Not that I'm s

ra!" she said. "H

hild any longer, but they all talk to me as if

id, with dignity. "At least, almost.

d said: "I tried to get you the blue room, Miss Bab.

out furniture. I have other things to think abo

aid, with her

a good lamp. Let them keep the blue room, Hannah, for their sel

nnah. "Is it a boo

pla

the child

the edge

ers. It is what is inside. It is what we are, not what we eat, or lo

Hannah. "You used to be

rs, so she gets rather talky at

ver for the Other Sex

was surveying the chamber which was to be the s

"I shall read you parts of it. Onl

she, peering i

with real Things, and not the way we think them. I am youn

flask? And these socks? And-you come right here, and tell me where you got the things in

nced that there had been a mistake, I knew not when or h

ll of Suspicion, "to be carrying a flask about with you." I was as p

I remarked. "But I ha

all the time. The Christmas before they had done it, and I had had my revenge. Although it had hurt m

tangled w

we practice

alter

tcase again. She brought up a tin box of cigarettes, and

is funny to do that sort of thing, but they are the first to squeal when anything is done to them. Once I put a small garter snake in a girl's

y cherished plans for the summer gone, and me in the country somewhere with Mademoiselle, and walking through the pasture with a botany in one hand and a folding cup

we decide on a course we stick to it through thick and thin. But we do not lie. I

o tell the family. You'd b

arbara!" she said. "And y

e. I had returned home with my mind fixed on ser

ee here, Miss Bab, you've just come home, and there was trouble at your last vacation that I'm like to rememb

a good girl and remind me of last Christmas holidays

ly NOT,"

giving you a chance, and forgetting my duty to help you, not

s out

e stage, and writing plays,

ool if this was fair treatment. I had returned to my home full of high

the argumen

e creed

iam

e these imm

had come home inspired with lofty ambition, and it had ended thus. Heart-broken, I wand

checked gentleman's suit, a mussed shirt and a cap. At first I was merely astonished. Then a sense of loss overpowered me. I suffered. I was prostrated with grie

s un

meeting a celebrity. I reply that it has a great deal to do with

f Introduction, Bo

ill the In

come to sit beside me, which I consider was merely kindness on his part and nothing like flirting, and he had brought his

nity that shapes our ends etc." It was to be. It was Karma, or Kismet, or whatever the word is. It wa

river meet." What was I to do? How hide this evidence of my (presumed) duplicity?

, I bundled the things up and put them all together in the toy closet, where all Sis's

hose innocent years wh

not surprised when, having hidden the trousers unde

, Barbara,

door, and said: "W

me

, which she had not yet, on account of the whooping coug

he meanest voice, "how lo

been softened, and would have told the whole story. But she did not. She was, as you might say, steaming

you mean,

one question

er when I don't

twitched

ing myself to mention it-the idea of your owning a

mere mention of a flask upsets you so. It isn't because you aren't used to one, especi

erjected, in the m

e on our table ever since I can remember. I knew

. And she was beating it. It was the reference to my youth that had aroused me, and I was like a wounded lion. Besides, I knew well enough that if they refused

ered a bad woman th

comfort to you, I did not buy that flask. And

the comfort Leila has been to me, and the anxiety you have caused, I

r, with her face all white around th

this," I said. "It will p

eld me of

ne cellar. There will be nothing to drink in this hou

the drain pipe. It was a very handsome flask, silver with gold strip

leave the flas

ainly

t mine,

se i

of mine loa

ho

't tel

erly bewildered. I sent you away a si

, and promised not to smoke and so forth, and I was to have some new dresses and a silk sweat

ext? Why can't you be like Leila, an

f the moment. Life for her is one grand, sweet Song. For me it is a serious matter. 'Life

ght it all out, and I believe in a world beyond, but not in a hell. Hell, I believe, is the state of mind o

rties if it had a stick in it, and you can generally find out by the taste. For if it is what Carter Brooks calls "lo

about the cigarettes, although I have never smoked but once as I think the school knows, and that only half through, owing to getting dizzy. I said that Sis

the way out, and said she had not meant to be harsh, but that my great uncle Putnam

ame home. We were all dressed for dinner, and waiting in th

tagging at my heals. I don't see why I can't have my first summer in peace." Oh, yes, we were going to the sh

med. "One would think yo

at year she's swept away by the flood of new girls the next fall. We might as well be frank. And while Barbara's not a beauty,

appenings, and our discovery today, I shall keep her with me. She need not, however, interfere with

r little kids that hang around the fruit punch at parties, and throw the peas from the croquettes at each ot

ds, which were not filial, to my mind,

. I ask nothing but food and shelt

ntend to die?"

more interesting than dieing, an

in just then

o, children. I'll just change my col

and faced hi

oing to have,

aid father fr

itters. It is quite nice. And I'll ask you, James, not

e piano so that the servants would not hear, and in the end father had a cocktail. Mother waited until he had had it, and was quieter, and then she told him about

is house is quiet until you come home, and then we get as lively as kittens in a

other. "Remember l

d, and fussed about Sis's dressmaker's bill. And the second man gave notice immediately after we left

he best half of a bottle of claret every night since they've been he

ad one act done in two days. I wrote out the love scenes in full, because I wanted to be sure of what they would say to each other. How I thrilled as each marvelous burst of fantasy flowed from my pen! But t

r I came home, and I read her some of the lov

said those things to me, I'd go straight into his

Robert Edeson, or

's dead,"

nes

moving picture actors? They never have a chan

er married again and happy, and takes the children out to drown them, only he can't because they can swim, and

was c

n just close my eyes and see the theater dark, and the stage almost dark, an

worry about that. I can only give them the material, an

the trouble I was in, for he brought me a box of candy on

it here,"

got to my room later, the box was full of cigarettes. I could have screamed. It just g

efore, and at a tea dance somebody had at the country c

er a bad child, ar

ainly

growing into a mighty pretty girl. But your whole social life is at stake. For

the heart, but

le Hampton and everywhere one went one fell over a

e was really repeating lists, such as sowing basket, table cand

ad her mouth full of pins, and once, owing to my remarking that I wished I had been illegitimate, so I could go away and live my own life, she swallowed one. It caused a grate deal of excitement, with Hannah blaming me and giving her vinegar to swallow to

e I lived with the creatures of my dreams, and forgot for a while that I was only

what dear Sha

ea

children of

thing but v

y characters, suffering the pangs of the wife with two husbands and both living, struggling in the water with the children, f

me prostrate on my couch, with

, and gliding to my s

an

it? You

e than whisper. In

is d

are

own

member of my family. But when s

aid solemnly. "You suffer too muc

r way," I replied

and looked at herself.

don't

roused me from my apathy, and I went into Sis's room, returning with a bo

t fat on it. Why don't you

said, in a d

ons it is generally supposed that I have experienced the gentle passion. But not so, alas! "Bab," Jane said, suddenly, "I

you

me shut up at a messy desk when everyone is out at the club playing tennis. Don't talk to me about a career

oked so intense, sitting there, and after all, why should I not have an amorous experience? I am not ugly, and can dance well, alth

s not the

ab, I'm so excited

alk about him," I

before, and did not intend to deceive again. And this I will say-I really told Jane Raleigh nothing. She jumped to her own conclusions.

lthough I liked Carter Brooks, and would possibly have loved him with all the

her and not make any trouble. And then I thought of the suitcase. So I locked the d

is it?"

est was there, and Carter's box too. Jane leaned down and lifted th

away and got

an

d at me p

hat are you doing with a man's whole outfit, inclu

n in the hall. I had all I could do to get the things put away, and with Jane looking like death I ha

e human pin cushion, "that you are sti

off the be

Bab," she said. "I d

d tell anything. But I was not comfortable. It is not a pleasant thought that your best friend considers you

d begin to sip the honey from it, but we are taken up and carried elsewhere, perhaps to the moun

y Hannah was so busy that I was left to pack my belongings myself, and thus for a time my guilty secret was safe. I put my things in on top of t

magazine, and drawing out a soiled gentleman's collar. She gave me a very piercing glance, but

astrophe. And so one may divide life. In my case the cinder proved the introduction, as there was none other. I consider that the

roceed to the

g the next day. And instead of flowers, she put a small bundle int

a wash cloth, with a pink edge. "For your linen chest

it is bad luck to throw a gift away. But I hoped, as I seemed to be getting more things to concea

d we had a long talk while mother and Sis

u. I seem to have lost my only boy, and have got inst

mean to rebuke him, but ye gods! Was I the

k you are not ver

. "Well, after all,

d when it was over he put his arms a

little rat i

and never would understand. My heart was full of a longing to be understood. I wanted to tell him my yearni

ars instead. Think o

r made dinner lists. Then and there I made up my mind to work hard and achieve, to become great and powerful, to write things that would ring the hearts of men-and women, to, of cou

say what came into my head, as it was my own play. Also to arrange the scenes so as to wear a variety of

this, the same being the condition of the new freshman dormitory. The walls were to thin, and so were the floors

Where, oh where, was I to fin

servants, especially only one bathroom for the lot of them, she let me unpack alon

o armor ag

his icy han

rley;

my room one evening, dressed for dinner, and found me in my ROBE D

this the way you int

she did not understand, I said coldly. "How can I care

bara. You used to be a normal child, and there was some accounting for what you were going to

tler who had take

said coldly. "But

y n

't understa

own. "I am not very intelligent, but if you put it clearly

the light faded and the stars issued, one by one, like a rash on the face of the sky, I told m

ugly, because it is real. It is, for instance, not ugly if a man is in love with

r mouth, but did

hatever to me. I cared for clothes and even for the attentions of the other se

tanding came to me. She, too, did not understand

was no way out. None. Once, in my youth, I had believed that I was not the child of my parents at all, but an adopted one-perhaps of rank and kept out of my inh

ring at me with perfect

edge of something. It may be typhoid, or it may be an e

and I saw mother's fine hand in that. Although not hungry in the usual sense of the word,

ss and tenderness I would have told all, but Sis

has not fooled anybody. Either you're doing it to appear interes

sed to

ry, you are going about it wrong," she said. "Real Literary

been talking, and

Leila, going to the bureau and spilling po

s to one or two of the girls, and they say there is no such thrill. But not all p

taying next door. And if he does an

y learning that he is nearby, with indeed but a wall or two between, can be calm and cool. But I am not like t

d always would be cold, that day I discovered the truth. Reginald Beecher was my ideal. I had never spoken to h

inner. While she was sneaking it out of the pantry I was dressing, and soon, as a new bein

nels. He was never sure of his garters, and was always looking to see if his socks were coming down. Well, he came over just as I was sure I saw Reginald Beecher

I must talk to s

choice of love or a ca

his front teeth and playing on it. "Neither ought to take up a

an never h

h one finger until the hand slip

of a career. But I believe

atter how young, thinking it is he? And as for mother maintaining that I kissed that wretched child, and they saw me from the drawing-room, i

I had not slapped him hard at all, and felt little or no compunction-when I heard Carter coming down the walk. He had called to see Leil

o!" h

" I re

way you gre

t-over," I said. "I eat hash at school,

e to s

you!" I replied,

n a bench and

e getting to be the prettiest girl around, and I'm st

ds had come recently. I am compelled to confess that I wept, although

y head on Carter Brooks' shoulder were both plainly visible against the

I di

held me off and

te. You are such an impulsive little beast, and you turn the fellows' heads so-l

o. But it seemed a shame to spoil things just as they

ds me. Nobody. An

haven't run away wi

-exa

he did, although unexpectedly. Somebody just then moved a chair on the porch

understand," he said. "You-you're mysterious. That's th

" I said in a demure m

es must have passed since I was a lighthearted girl, running up and down that beach,

e to live, and hardly that. The fire

that upstairs, above the bath-houses, et cetera, there must be a room or two. The very

lace fixed up. True, the next door boat-house was close, but a boat-house is a quiet pl

n. I had a fright there, as it seemed to be full of people, but I soon saw it was only the family bathing suits hung up to dry. Aside

For a man was just below, and I nearly p

e said. "S

s Mr. Beecher himself, in his

still. Oh pen, move stea

id. I was still han

ea that the instant I do you'll vanis

rdly belie

on, "I think you mu

en

and don't matter. But some evening one of the admirers may be on the Patten's

ll the others, he, too, did not understand. He considered me a flir

n you until I saw you climbing the lattice. Then I knew you

ent. Is there anything more beautiful than a tall man

as stari

I've made a mistake after all. I

s," I replied. "I'm seventeen, but I s

" he

I said. "And the next I'm grown up and

our pard

deed more so. I think a great deal now, because I have plenty

oo high to be a menace, and besides, I am n

is death, which is beautiful but cold. An

ted. As for me, I dared not consider whom it was who

eflect on just ordinary thing

ed my sh

lothes to worry about. Mo

or

I said in a lo

amazing. What

n a pl

com

y must always end in a catastrophe? The book says a

"But, to tell you a secret, I n

re," I observed, not to merely please him,

atch and looked at

ed to go to work tonight. But this is so-er-thrilli

who understood, who-as he himself had said in "Her Soul"-spoke my own language! Except

sounds to listen to father conversing about Gold, or Sis about Clothes, o

Patten came down their walk and crossed to us, walkin

this is about a

, or do something," sa

emind you of that. Also of the expense I'm incurring, and all the r

l, but came back for

ng fixed the way you said you wanted it. A

, and Mr. Beech

at bunch. Look here," he said, "I-I'm awfully interested in w

nights! Oh m

not to do so, even to David Belasco, I gave it to him fully. And even now, when al

her feeling that I should be encouraged in leaving off cigarettes. So when I saw the cigar I was sure it was not fat

I said good night. Our relations conti

uthoress, and let's h

I've bored y

"I haven't spent such

y were going to make a fuss, I refused to say with whom I h

annot be trusted out of our sight. Where do you meet all these men? I

t-house. And of course Sis had to chime in that she'd heard a rumor I had run away and got married, and alth

ter all were in the land of dreams, I took that wretched suit of clo

ange event of the nex

cool about the Pattens, owing to nobody knowing them that we knew. Although I must say they

it her aunt, and she ran

I've got the runabout, and after th

shook

soner, Jan

t the play, or

"I can tell you nothing more. I

er, unless--" She stopped

and now, having had time to think it over, you do not want to go to him

ay that I kept it up. A

can I do, J

it before, thinking you loved him. But no man who wears clothes

ogrammed, and she made me promise never to let my husband use it. When she went away she left it with me, and

s said I was flirting with Carter Brooks, although she never intends to ma

I took two boards on trestles and made a desk, and brought a dictionary and some pens

er would understand. At eleven o'clock Sis and Carter and Jane and some others went in bathing from our dock. Jane called up to me, but I pretended not to hear. They had a good time judging by the noise,

beech. What a physique! What shoulders, all brown and muscular! And to think that, strong as they were, they wrote the tender l

eny that she was pretty. I only say that she was not modest, and that the way she stood on th

. Why not? He was a public character, and entitled to respect. Nay, even to love. But I maintain and will to m

d-and he had a box in his hand. He looked around, and no one was looking except me, and he did not see me. He looked very fierce and glum, and shortly after he carried in a chair and a folding card ta

the water a long time, and the girl with the figure was always crawling out on the dock and then diving in to show of

Bab," I heard Sis say to Carter

That's all. They get over it

athe

r. They all scuttled into their doorways, and Mr. Patten waited till Mr. Beecher was inside

minute. Then Mr. Beecher

s the gam

and now I'm driven to that. I've got to have that third act. The company's got the first tw

hrough the window, high up in the wall. And although I do not ap

fortune in this thing, and you're lying down on the job. Y

nswer to this.

re's champagne on the ice for you when you've finished, ho

weight against the door. But it held, even

r the way you are. Now be a good fellow, and let's get this thing done

out, looking like a gentleman, unless one kn

Hannah came out and roused me from my trance of grief. She

re's that fruit salad that cook prides herself on, a

is a crime being committed in this nei

acious,

tly, "because it is only being done now, and I cannot make

th her, and I do not understand why

? It was hardly a police matter, being between friends, as one may say, and yet I simply could not b

the lock of the bath-house. I therefore left my studio and proceeded to the

library, and was about to escape with them, when

till b

standing from him, but my

s tone. "I am not doing as good work as I would if things

e, and then ca

our tongue

is crowning inf

t into your riding togs and we'll order the horses. I d

finished. He only shook his head, however, and lef

they struck Mr. Beecher on the head. Not knowing, of course, that I had flung them, and that my reason was pure friendliness a

mmoned coura

help?" I said, in a qua

but I could hear a pe

help you," I said

s voice, rather ab

ed. Be still, my heart! For

say 'beloved' because an ideal is always

's

omething, and I thin

understand? I want to work. And don't c

l," I sai

me without f

plied. How commanding he

king a noise, before that, you

OT t

-shooter. Anything. But don't

ween him and his MAGNUM OPUS. I sat down on the

the reputation of the smallest foot of any girl in our set in the city, I prefer comfort and ease, unhampered by heals-French or otherwise. No man will ever m

on the doorstep, in a lowly attitu

ed and st

"What do you think

can only ask you to be quiet and speak

e whispered. "What

ng now, but I

is hap

have known me a long time and I have

pretty, and now she had opened

threw his pen at the door, and began to pace the bath-house. Owing of course to his bein

you don't explain I shall lose my mind.

d at me s

a prisoner.

, and even to repeat later in public that I had told her that my lover had come for me, and that father ha

d to him and asked him to go away, and not to come back unless he had quieter b

s sitting thinking, with

tand, Bab," she said

away, he is writing. I don't think I told you, Jane, but that is his busines

d at me s

his clothing gone! What's

ting the last act of a play. The company is rehearsing the first t

he got up and said to

e been stuffing me for about a week, and I don't believe a word of

hen went away, And Mr. Beec

evil's the

as no luncheon and probably no dinner. But I s

t through. I can't stew

ou were an a

able and I'm

our pretty fac

w," I replied, venting in feminine fashio

doing more work than I've done in two months, although it was a dirty, l

ied, as who would

el

tten do with

." He was silent, exce

e said. "Let me know first, however. You'r

believe hit the ink bottle. But no matt

He explained that having been thus forced, he had almost finished the last act, and it was a corker. And he said if he had his clothes and some money, and a key to get out, he'd go right back to town with it an

They'll take cussed good care of that. And there's

alling me thus, I retaine

t of clothes

the slight acquaintance we have had

clothes," I s

u h

ring them, if you like. They loo

believe this is really happening to me! Go and bring the suit

arge box of

, locked in. The play is almost done. And a very young lady on the doorste

slave, like the rest of us, to his body. He required clothes and tobacco. I felt that, before long, h

Also I believe he took a shower, as I heard the water running, At about seven o'clock he said he had finished the play. He put on the clothes which he observed

t playwright, who had just, even if under compulsion, finished a last act, I bared my very soul to him, such as about resembling Julia Marlowe, and no one understa

e compared with su

disappeared, h

your having a suit of clothes an

ully, merely saving tha

But Mr. Beecher made a suggestion, which was this: that the Pattens were evidently going to let him starve until he got through work, and that he would see them in p

st he

like to see if you can get the key? If you do we'll go to a h

to see that all other emotions previously felt were as nothing to this one. I confess, without shame, that I

" I asked, in a ra

ught a

are that Patten took it up to his room this time, for safety, You'd know it

ly after-wards I was on my way to the Patten's house, on shaking knees. It was by now twilight, that bea

time when younger I had a habit of taking things from the pantry, I was quickly able to see that the key was not in the entry. I therefore went around to the front door and went in, being pr

d by a maid who was turning down the beds-much too early, also, and not allowed in the

nto another chamber, and

N THAT CLOSE

nd and I suddenly felt that she was going to bed, and might get her robe de nuit out of the closet. I was petrified. But

mebody came in, like Mrs. Patten's voice a

rson, and I knew it was the one-piece lady. "He's going to come b

of him locked in there alone, and no clot

ot marrie

s over. And the worst part of it was that for a married man I had done withou

make him work. He is a lazy dog. But don't worry. We'll feed him

ld they leave nothing to my s

him he's the greatest thing in the world. That will help some. He's

ob, wrung from my tortured heart. But Mrs. Beecher h

expect he'll attack him. He's got a vile temper. I'll sit with

, although every one was afraid of mother's tongue, and nobody would marry Leila, except Carter Brooks, and he was poor and no prospects. And that I was an incorrigible, and carried on something gha

one!" h

ar, in bathing trunk

. His bathing t

n't go far w

o far I can'

rs. Beech

Do you mean that he has gone without a

gave a sor

s so temperamental. You don't

eived me. He was not as I had thought him. In our two conversations he had not mentione

him, which he'd hardly have done if he meant to drown himself. Or even if, as we fear, he had no pockets. He has smoked a lot of

ave worn it," said Mrs. Be

Patten went on. "You may reco

k here, don't they call that-that f

ne. "She let him out, and of course he's done no wo

how they'd like to be shut in a closet and threatened with a violent deat

and tell him what his little daughter has done, because I know she's mixed up in it, towel or no t

ng them-and sang around and was not much concerned, although for all she knew he was in

on the floor. After what seemed like hours, Mrs

's gone t

t gi

is in hysterics and there's a party searching the beach for h

ne. "I wish he would grow up and learn something. He's becoming a nuisance. And

t and thought of the beach being searched for my body, a thought which filled my eyes with tears of pity for what might have been, I still hoped Mrs. Beecher would go to bed, but she did not

athe

ll rang, and there I was still in t

ell, then-what's he arrested for?... Oh, kidnapping! Well, if I'm any judge, they ought to arrest the Ar

her unjustly accused husband's side an

or and drew a breath of fresh air. Also I looked at her, a

thus to distort her looks a

and on my tiptoes m

wire trellis, and put on my 'robe de nuit'. But before I settled to sleep I went to the pantry and there satisfied the pangs of hunger having had nothing since breakfast the day before. All the lights seeme

saw Leila in the doorway. She screamed again, and mother came and stood besi

ed, and then mother gave a

e man has been i

hat's all." Then they looked at me, and

me you've been in that bed

e not of the understanding

feel I shall tell you n

" mother said, in a s

he has for some time considered sending me to a convent, although without cause

clothes closet, but where is

You MUST

y secret alo

at the foot

. "Barbara, there is another wretched man in all this. It could not hav

one elbow, and look

er's imperiled now by not having a last act. I can tell you no more, except"-here my voice took

o her face, and emitte

troubled child. "Come, and Hannah c

ut before she

d girl, and give us a chance to live this scan

s said, in a

robably men will always be following her and making trouble. Think

, heart stricken tone, "save to be allowed

id, "if I hear that wor

nd Sis came over an

e mischief, but I don't suppose anybody will ever know the truth of it. I

arry him. He has a wife already. Personally, I think she's a total loss. She wears patent wavers at night, an

ve me a wild lo

except the fact that he was recognized by Jane Raleigh, who knew the suit he wore, when in the act of pawning his ring to get money to escape from his captors (I. E., Th

ypewriter they gave me to promise not to elope with anybody-although such a thing is far f

my ideal, my night of the pen. I w

e returning to our institutions of learning. Jane clutched m

tever had come between us,

a new pla

again you will hear his dear word

ove sc

ll hear his manly tones as issuing from the door of the Bath-house. I t

said, in a q

I stared I saw a girl, wearing her hair as I wear mine, cross the st

ng to help? I do so

ERY

beyond the bath

's t

WO

of day. My body was bent with misery. Because at last I knew that, like mother and all the rest, he t

ow that he ne

not un

pl

had cost two dollars each, I gathered up the