Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-17
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Trir II Ih E9I don't. III never speak to you again,
i az cant help it," was Trix's response
ou re Just as mean and hateful and dis
y senoklng with rage and disappointment.
"a, Ai'er az that I've said for you and done for
YOU, 10 back out like this and leave all your
lrlehds IN the lurchl But III tell them all,
see II l don't! III tell them you lost the
mat won't be true, and you know i,
Kate. I've nearly worked myself to death
trying to win. and it was so much for myself
as LOT you and the rest who called themselves
and ! won't do it now"
>, w nat wants you to tell a lie?' asked
hate. You need not say anything
1T would be just the same,' said Trix. "To
act nc, he j is just as wicked and little more
"Oh, Trix don't be such goosel" implored
hate, changing her tone and her tactics, as
she found her champion was not to. be driven
from from her stand. You ought to think of the
other girls who have stood up for YOU. J
don care bit for myself, but Belle will lose
her beautiful watch and Jeanie her pearl pin,
and lots Of girls ribbons and gloves, and all
sorts Sol ot things ing It's so awful mean to go back
I'm sorry" said Trix, in low, panied
voice Pm Just as sorry as l can be, Kate;
but ! can't help it."
| "You canl, All you have to do is to copy
IiidO ohe dllSWer, lT1X. i ii never DTedIHe IL
to any one to my dying day, | promise you,
and not another living soul will know. Come,
dear, don't be disagreeable I've Dragged on
you so. 1t isn't as if the other side were real
fair and square. You know Lii writes dates
on her finger nails and counts her questions
in class, and cheats whenever she gets
! change. Come, Trix, please do, just for my
! sake"
""Oh, Kate, don't, don't!" replied Trix, her
voice faltering, as the iron of temptation en-
tered good. |
but l can't do this''
"You can't? Fudge!" said Kate, indignant
ly., "Say you won't, and have done with it
and me forever!"
Trix lifted her dark eyes to Kate's face,
"I won't, then!" she answered. unfinching-
And Kate snatched up her books and turn
ed away with flashing eyes and curling lip.
Trix had lost. both her prize and her friend.
Not very grievous loss, perhaps but after
the long strain on brain and nerve, Trix felt
it keenly
Long after Kate had slipped the book back
in it's place in the darkened desk-room--eav-
ing the key in the lock to mystify absent
minded Miss Martha in the morning-and was
sleeping in blissful forgetfulness of her pranks
and perils, .Trix tossed YEARLY on her pillow,
in giddy dance through her excited brain.
"It was right" she kept repeating to herself.
eyes, it was right; but there is no one to
know, and no one to care whether do. right
| OF WrOnR.
| And then, opening her tired eyes, Trix glanc-
ed upward through her great stone-framed
window and saw the moon shining down upon
her from the cold, wintry sky, like the face
of an old friend.
Her thoughts flew back to that night of long
ago, when seated on the mossy banks of the
haunted spring, with Tessie's golden head on
her lap she told her little sister the legend of
the moon water. And through the darkness
there seemed to float once more the stirring
melodies of Nam Chloe's hymn:
eve are travelling on. my brothers, through
the darkness of the night;
But our Captain is before us, and will surely
lead us right.
Soon we'll hear the Jordan rolling, and we'll
see the Morning Light
So keep to the narrow road"
And, with these words still echoing in her
ears, poor Trix who felt as if the darkness
was very heavy just now. cried herself to
sleep.
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