and saw
that the flame of her life was burning low, also bent all our energies
to the task of realizing her hopes. In November preceding the convention
she visited me and her niece, Miss Lucy Anthony, in our home in
Mount Airy, Philadelphia, and it was clear that her anxiety over the
convention was weighing heavily upon her. She visibly lost strength from
day to day. One morning she said abruptly, "Anna, let's go and call on
President M. Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr."

I wrote a note to Miss Thomas, telling her of Miss Anthony's desire to
see her, and received an immediate reply inviting us to luncheon the
following day. We found Miss Thomas deep in the work connected with her
new college buildings, over which she showed us with much pride. Miss
Anthony, of course, gloried in the splendid results Miss Thomas had
achieved, but she was, for her, strangely silent and preoccupied. At
luncheon she said:

"Miss Thomas, your buildings are beautiful; your new library is a
marvel; but they are not the cause of our presence here."

"No," Miss Thomas said; "I know you have something on your mind. I am
waiting for you to tell me what it is."

"We want your co-operation, and that of Miss Garrett," began Miss
Anthony, promptly, "to make our Baltimore Convention a success. We want
you to persuade the Arundel Club of Baltimore, the most fashionable club
in the city, to give a reception to the delegates; and we want you to
arrange a college night on the programme--a great college night, with
the best college speakers ever brought together."

These were large commissions for two extremely busy women, but both
Miss Thomas and Miss Garrett--realizing Miss Anthony's intense
earnestness--promised to think over the suggestions and see what they
could do. The next morning we received a telegram from them stating that
Miss Thomas would arrange the college evening, and that Miss Garrett
would reopen her Baltimore home, which she had closed, during the
convention. She also invited Miss Anthony and me to be her guests there,
and added that she would try to arrange the reception by the Arundel
Club.

"Aunt Susan" was overjoyed. I have never seen her happier than she was
over the receipt of that telegram. She knew that whatever Miss Thomas
and Miss Garrett undertook would be accomplished, and she rightly
regarded the success of the convention as already assured. Her
expectations were more than realized. The college evening was
undoubtedly the