But I cried.

I couldn't help crying; and she knew I did--care.

Then she began to cry; and to-day, after school, we went to walk up on the hill to the big rock; and there--she told me.

And it _was_ the divorce.
And it's all that Stella Mayhew--the new girl.

Her mother found out I was divorced (I mean Mother was) and she told Stella not to play with me, nor speak to me, nor have a thing to do with me.