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Zora sat still She thought of the noisy flaht of the white bed made her timid, and slowly she shook her head Nevertheless Miss Ss for you to wear," she pointed out, opening the bureau, "and here is the bath-roo in the middle of the floor

In tie, and to learn new and unknoays of living and dressing She still refused to board, for that would cost more than she could pay yet, and she would accept no charity Gradually an underay-haired teacher and the dark young black-haired girl Delicately, too, but gradually, the coulated Of et excused to fly to the swamp, to work and dreaer until he ain, working while she was busy in Miss Ser awhile to tell Zora of his day while she busied herself with her little tasks Saturday ether, and so away from curious eyes, would come and sit and talk with them as they toiled

In those days, for these two souls, earth cahty change from youth to worees grew shyer and htful There was less of coood fellowship was silently put aside; they no longer lightly clasped hands; and each at times wondered, in painful self-consciousness, if the other cared

Then began, too, that long and subtle change wherein a soul, until now uns, coropes and tries to adjust one with the other, and through theive to the inner deeper self, finer and fuller expression One saw it easily, almost suddenly, in Alwyn's Sunday suit, vivid neckties, and aard fads

Slower, subtler, but an to earn bits of pin hter; belts served a better purpose; stockings were sreat dark an to be subdued and twisted and combed until, with steady pains and study, it lay in thick twisted braids about her velvet forehead, like some shadowed halo All this came much more slowly and spase ht--a student's social--ith a certain suddenness the whole school, teachers and pupils, realized the newness of the girl, and even Bles was startled