How do you do it ?" "Elnora ?" asked four girls in concert.
"Yes, Elnora is the name of the girl I want these things for." "Did she come to the high school to-day ?" questioned one of them.
"Was she in your classes ?" demanded Margaret without reply.
Four girls stood silent and thought fast.

Had there been a strange girl among them, and had she been overlooked and passed by with indifference, because she was so very shabby?
If she had appeared as much better than they, as she had looked worse, would her reception have been the same?
"There was a strange girl from the country in the Freshman class to-day," said Ellen Brownlee, "and her name was Elnora." "That was the girl," said Margaret.
"Are her people so very poor ?" questioned Ellen.
"No, not poor at all, come to think of it," answered Margaret.

"It's a peculiar case.

Mrs.Comstock had a great trouble and she let it change her whole life and make a different woman of her.

She used to be lovely; now she is forever saving and scared to death for fear they will go to the poorhouse; but there is a big farm, covered with lots of good timber.