rd the wooded crest of the opposite mountain, cast a
golden glow over valley and slope. The air was filled with the drowsy
hum and stirring of tiny unseen creatures, the birches that fringed the
glade leaned and whispered. The three girls sat silent, staring down
into the valley, each visioning a golden future of her own. But a
thoughtfulness shadowed the radiance of Jerry's face. Yesterday she had
been just Jerry Travis of Kettle, now she was another Jerry; on a page
far back in her life's book, opened to her, she had glimpsed the tragedy
of disappointment, of blighted hope, of defeat--her own young, undaunted
spirit cried out that none of this must come into _her_ life! Or, if it
did, she must be strong to meet it----

Gyp roused. For her the golden spell was broken. She yawned and
stretched.

"Isn't school funny? You think you hate it and then when vacation comes
you keep thinking about going back. And you bury geometry and Caesar
forever and try to forget them and then first thing you're thinking
about what you're going to take next year and whom you'll get and what
new girls will come and what sort of a team we'll have! We've just _got_
to train a forward who'll be as good as Ginny when she graduates and I
believe, Jerry Travis, you're _it_."

Jerry and Isobel turned promptly from their dreaming.

"I wonder who'll take Miss Gray's place--and Barbara Lee's----"

"And, oh," Jerry hugged them both. "I'll be _there_! I'll be _there_! I
hated to _think_ of your all going on without me. It would have broken
my heart! Dear old Highacres!"

"To thy golden founts of wisdom,
Alma Mater, guide our step----"

caroled the young voices, softly.

* * * * *

BY JANE ABBOTT

HAPPY HOUSE

A NOVEL

"There is something of Louisa May Alcott in the way Mrs. Abbott unfolds
her narrative and develops her ideals of womanhood; something refreshing
and heartening for readers surfeited with novels that are mainly devoted
to uncovering cesspools."--_Boston Herald._

STORIES FOR GIRLS

KEINETH

"'Keineth' is a life creation--within its covers the actual spirit of
youth. The book is of special interest to girls, but when a grown-up
gets hold of it there follows a one-session under the reading lamp with
'finis' at the end."--_Buffalo Times._

LARKSPUR

"Mrs. Abbott takes her story writing seriously and the standards she
sets up in the actions of her characters must help to shape the