The Third Violet

had remained on top of the ledge. Hollanden showed much zeal in conducting his contingent to the foot of the falls. Through the

wker have gone?" said the younger Miss

ing at her fondly, "you always ha

der where th

een water swept into the pool, Miss Worcester, the elder, seated on the mo

l in there, or you won't be the full-back at Yale in 1907, as you have planned. I'm sure I don't know how to answer you, Miss Worcester. I've inquired of innumerable literary men, and none of 'em know. I may say I have chased that problem for yea

curiously, and the elder Wo

e to time that I was making no great holes in the universal plan, and I came to know that one person in every two thousand of the people I saw had heard of me, and that four out of five of these had forgotten it. And then one in every two of those who remembered that they had heard of me regarded the fact that I wrote as a great impertinence. I admitted these things, and in defence merely builded a maxim that stated that each wise man in this world is concealed amid some twenty thousand fools. If you have eyes for mathematics, this conclusion should interest y

ord of it is true,"

utobiography?" demanded

didn't explain a thing about how literary men came to be so

t he starts to do, Millicent. And besides," he went on, with the gleam

angrily at him. "Indeed? Not y

sses," said Hol

"I believe you try to make us think

eflected. "You are an absurd

while breaking their necks over these rocks. Would you like to have it spread here, Mrs. Fanhall? Never mind consulting the girls. I as

r were in Brussels, you know,"

t?" demanded Hollanden.

re, Hollie. You t

cester girls shouted in chorus, "Oh, I say, Hollie, come back! Don

't," said Hollande

ly at the top of the cliff. "Oh, there th