o exert this influence, just
as it should be! She certainly did not crave a vote, and would do all
she could to prevent other women from getting it.

Mrs. Brunton had come from the East, and although she had lived many
years in the West, she could never forget what a sacrifice she had
made by coming to a new country. Being a college graduate, too, seemed
to be something she could not outgrow!

When her only boy was old enough to go to school, she became the
teacher's bad dream, for she wrote many notes and paid many calls to
explain that Garth was not at all like other children and must not be
subjected to the same discipline as they, for he had a proud and
haughty spirit that would not submit to discipline unless it were
tactfully disguised. Garth was a quiet, mild little lad who would have
been much like other boys if left alone.

Garth was twenty years old when the war began, and he was then
attending the university. He first spoke of enlisting when the war had
gone on a year.

"Enlist!" his mother cried, when he mentioned it to her, "I should say
not--you are my only child, and I certainly did not raise you to be a
soldier. There are plenty of common people to do the fighting; there
are men who really like it; but I have other ambitions for you--you
are to be a university man."

When the Third University Company went, he spoke of it again, but his
mother held firm.

"Do you think I am going to have you sleeping in those awful trenches,
with every Tom, Dick, and Harry? I tell you soldiering is a rough
business, and I cannot let a boy of mine go--a boy who has had your
advantages must not think of it."

"But, mother, there are lots of boys going who have had just as good
advantages as I have."

Just then came in Emily Miller, the little girl from next door whose
brother was going away the next day. Emily was an outspoken young lady
of fourteen.

"When are you going, Garth?" she asked pointedly.

"He is not going," said his mother firmly. "His duty is at home
finishing his education, and I am simply amazed at your mother for
letting Robert go. Does she not believe in education? Of course I know
there are not many who lay the stress on it that I do, but with me it
is education first--always."

"But the war won't wait," said Emily; "my mother would be very glad to
have Bob finish his education, but she's afraid it will be over then."

"War or no war, I say let the boys get their education--what is life
w