always, Cloudy!" said Allison in a clear man's
voice of decision. "Put that down forever, Cloudy Jewel. You are our
mother from now on and we want you always."

"That is dear," said Julia Cloud; "but"--a resignation in her
voice--"some day you will marry, and then you will not need me any
more and I shall find something to do somewhere."

Two fierce young things rose up in arms at once.

"Put that right out of your head, Cloudy Jewel!" cried Leslie. "You
shan't say it again! If I thought any man could be mean enough not to
feel as I do about you, I would never marry him; so there! I would
never marry anybody!"

"My wife will love you as much as I do!" said Allison with conviction.
"I shall never love anybody that doesn't. You'll see!"

And so with loving arms about her and tender words of fierce assertion
they convinced her at last, and the bond that held them was only
strengthened by the little tension it had sustained.

Professor Armitage came no more to the little pink-and-white house;
but Julia Cloud was happy with her children, and they were content
together. The happy days moved on.

"I don't see how you get time for that Christian Endeavor Society of
yours, Cloud," said one of the professors to Allison. "I hear you're
the moving spirit in it; yet you never fall down on your class work.
How do you manage it? I'd like to put some of my other students onto
your ways of planning."

"Well, there's all of Sunday, you know, professor," answered Allison
promptly. "I don't give so very much more time, except a half-hour
here and there to a committee meeting, or now and then a social on
Friday night, when I'd otherwise be fooling, anyway. My sister and I
cut out the dances, and put these social parties in their place."

"But don't you have to study on Sundays?"

_"Never_ do!" was the quick reply. "Made it a rule when I started in
here at this college, and haven't broken it once, not even for
examinations. I find I'm fresher for my work Monday morning when I
make the Sabbath _real._"

The professor eyed him curiously.

"Well, that certainly is interesting," he said. "I'll have to try it.
Though I don't see how I'd quite manage it. I usually have to spend
the whole Sunday correcting papers."

"Save 'em up till early Monday morning, and come over to our Christian
Endeavor meeting. See if it isn't worth while, and then see how much
more you can do Monday morning at five o'clock, when you're really
rested, tha