. Witch Winnie's mystery; or, The old oak cabinet; the story of a King's daughter . nboniereswere satin beaver hats. Stacey appeared early in the evening. Itwas the first time that Milly had seen him ina dress suit, and Milly confided to me pri-vately that he seemed to her to have suddenlygrown several inches taller. He was verygrave and dignified, not at all like the oldrollicking, boyish Stacey with whom Millywas familiar. Milly, quite inexplicably to her-self, felt a little awed by him and was at lossfor a .subject of conversation. She referredto the Inter-scholastic Games, and Staceyscowle
. Witch Winnie's mystery; or, The old oak cabinet; the story of a King's daughter . nboniereswere satin beaver hats. Stacey appeared early in the evening. Itwas the first time that Milly had seen him ina dress suit, and Milly confided to me pri-vately that he seemed to her to have suddenlygrown several inches taller. He was verygrave and dignified, not at all like the oldrollicking, boyish Stacey with whom Millywas familiar. Milly, quite inexplicably to her-self, felt a little awed by him and was at lossfor a .subject of conversation. She referredto the Inter-scholastic Games, and Staceyscowled so violently that Milly saw that thiswas an unfortunate beginning, and hastenedto change the subject to that of the proposedtournament at Narragansett Pier. They werepractically alone, for the parlor had been de-serted by the onslaught on the supper table,and Stacey said confidentially : Ill tell you just how it is, Milly; I oughtnot to take part in that tournament. Oh, do ! pleaded Milly. I will if you say so. It shall be just asyou say, for Ill do anything for you ; but if I. • THE CLOUDS PART. 321 go into this thing I lose every last chance ofpassing my examinations for Harvard. Allthe same, Ill do it if you want me to. No, no ; murmured Milly ; not at sucha cost ; but it cant be as bad as that. Whatdo you mean ? I mean that I have made a precious foolof myself all winter. I have gone in for ath-letics at the expense of my studies, and Ivefailed in both ; and now that the time is com-ing for my examinations it will be a tightsqueeze if I pass. I made up my mind to re-form after I extinguished myself at the games,and Ive been cramming ever since. Do youknow what the boys call me now? A regular dig, I suppose. No, thats obsolete. At Harvard a hardstudent is a grind, and a very hard studentis a long-haired grind. Woodpecker is com-plimentary enough to call me a SutherlandSister hair invigorator grind. Milly laughed. No laughing matter, I tell you. Ivebroken training. I have
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