ed. "Come into my room, and we will read it."

"The letter was not far behind the telegram," remarked Anne, as she
closed the door of their room and seated herself on the couch beside
Miriam.

"Do hurry, Grace, and read us what Mabel has to offer on the subject of
Kathleen Mavourneen--West, I mean," corrected Elfreda with a giggle.

Grace unfolded the letter and began to read:

"MY DEAR GRACE:--

"Please forgive me for neglecting you so shamefully, but I am now
wrestling with a real job on a real newspaper and am so occupied
with trying to keep it that I haven't had time to think of anything
else. Father is deeply disgusted with my journalistic efforts. He
wished me to go to Europe this summer, but the light of ambition
burns too vividly to be quenched even by my beloved Europe. When
next I go abroad it will be with my own hard-earned wages.

"I haven't done anything startling yet; I have been chronicling
faithfully the doings of society. As most of the elect are out of
town, my news gathering has not been in the nature of a harvest.
However, I am still striving, still hoping for the day when I shall
leave society far behind and sally forth on the trail of a big
story.

"But, I am diverging from one of the chief purposes of this letter.
It is to introduce to you Kathleen West, an ambitious and
particularly clever young woman, who is a 'star' reporter on this
paper. It seems that she and I have changed ambitions. I sigh for
journalistic fame, and she sighs for college. She has done more
than sigh. She has been saving her money for ever so long,
determined to take unto herself a college education. I admire her
spirit and have praised Overton so warmly--how could I help
it?--that she has decided to cast her lot there. Hence my telegram,
also this letter. Please be as nice with her as you know how to be,
for I am sure she will prove herself a credit to Overton.

"I shall hope to see you some time during the fall. I am going to
try to get a day or two off and run down to see you. Tell Anne the
Press is greater than the Stage, and tell Elfreda and Miriam that I
am collecting the autographs of famous people and that theirs would
be greatly appreciated, particularly if attached to letters. I must
bring this epistle to an abrupt close, and go out on the trail of