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CHAPTER
HAPPY HOUSE
THE LETTER
Through the stillness of a drowsy June day broke the intoning of the library bell, chiming the hour.
Three heads lifted quickly to listen. Three pairs of eyes met, the same thought flashed through three minds.
"Won't we miss that bell, though? I've seen grads when they've come back stand perfectly still and listen to it with their eyes all weepy looking. That's the way we'll feel by and by," one of them said slowly.
"And the chimes used to make me dreadfully homesick! Don't those frosh days seem ages ago?"
The third girl slammed the lid of the trunk that occupied the centre of the disordered room. She crossed to the window.
Over the stretch of green between the dormitory and the campus many people were slowly walking. Their fluffy dresses, their gay parasols, the aimlessness of their wandering steps marked them as visitors. The girl in the window frowned as she watched them.
"I always hate it when the campus fills up with gawking, staring people! It ought to be kept--sacred--just for us!"
One of the three laughed merrily in answer.
The third of the group who had been sitting on, the floor staring out over the tree tops with the dreamy gravity of one who--as long ago as yesterday--graduated from the great University, suddenly interrupted.
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