The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-01
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
MARJoRiE,s MISTAKE.

course. There was no other new girl
in town. Marjorie had heard great
deal about this young lady who had
been educated abroad, and who spoke
French like her mother tongue, and
she wondered timidly how one would
make advances to so accomplished a
person.
AS it proved, it was not necessary
for her to make the advances. The
strange girl turned in her direction
with the air of being about to make a
remark, and Marjorie's heart came
into her throat. But it was a very
ordinary remark after all. II wonder
when the next car goes DOWN."
I'm afraid we'll have to wait half
an hour We just missed that other
car
The other girl laughed. 81 wish I
hadn't hurried So" she said. 1T
seems rather funny to run till you
haven't any breath, and then stand
half an hour on the corner waiting"
Her laughter was infectious, and Mar
jorie joined in with all her heart.
What nice GIRL" she thought. Il
know I should like her.
In two minutes they were chatting
pleasantly. Marjorie asked the new
girl how she liked Appleby, and the
new girl answered that she thought it
very pretty place.
''Of course" she explained, II don't
know anybody yet, so sometimes I'm
little lonely
cit won't take you long to get ac-
quainted, though" Marjorie said.
Mentally she added that a girl SO
vivacious and agreeable, even if she
didn't have the advantage of being
Judge Elwell's granddaughter, would
not wait long for friends. The other
looked away, and did not reply for a
moment.
Perhaps So" she said at last. tits
different here from the other places
I've lived"
81 suppose so," Marjorie said, hum
bly,, rejecting that the other girl had
seen Paris. 1t was quite surprising
to find, as they talked on, that they
had many tastes in common. More
and more Marjorie's heart warmed to
the stranger. She told herself that
never before had she so liked girl
on so short an acquaintance.
When the car came swinging around
the curve, they boarded it together,
and took the same seat. And then it
was that Marjorie found courage to
say:
st wish 1 could see more of you this
summer"
"Really?" asked the other girl, and
there was usefulness as well as in
credulity in her tone.
"Of course" Marjorie replied. 81
suppose" she added, that your
grandfather hates to spare you?"
my grandfather" the girl repeat
ed, and looked puzzled.
why, I haven't any. Or any father
either she added, sadly.
Marjorie's lips parted and closed
again without word The astonish-
ment on her face was unmistakable.
The other girl looked at her sharply,
and then sat up a little straighter.
Perhaps I should have told you
who was in the first place." she said,
with change in her voice that Mar
jorie could not help noticing. st came
down here with Prof. Larkin and his
wife. I'm working my way through
school, and l pay for my board by
helping Mrs. Larkin with the baby.
This summer they pay me something
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Marjorie was doing some quick
thinking. This was not Judge Ell
wells granddaughter at ALL The girl
j beside her was no heiress, with Euro
pean languages at her tongues end.
1t cannot be denied that her first SEN
timent was dismay, not unmixed with
resentment. She tried to remember
what she had said, just what offers of
friendliness she had made, and with
her effort at recollection was min
gled vague wonder if the other girl
would understand that she had spoken
under a misunderstanding. Then it
came to her with a sense of shock
that Marjorie Saunders was nearer to
being that unlovely thing called a
snob than any one would have sup
posed. She had thought the stranger
most attractive while she took her
for rich mans granddaughter She
had admired her vivacity and charm;
she had been anxious for her friend
ship! she had been proud that her
new acquaintance had seemed to find
her agreeable! And now the discov-
cry that she was not an heiress, edu-
Gated in exclusive European schools,
but a poor girl dependent upon her
own exertions, had changed her mood
completely. Marjorie had the grace
to blush for herself.
But the silence had been too long
protracted. The other girl drew away,
her color rising.
There's another thing perhaps
should have explained" she said, but
she did not get any further. Mar
jorie's hand on hers interrupted her.
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