He wrote to her--a letter that cost him a day's labor:-- "We don't seem to have any photograph of your father; but things have a way of getting lost, particularly in the hands of an old fellow like me.

However, I have had myself taken as you wished, and you can see now what a solemn person your grandfather is in his _toga academica_.

I had forgotten I had that silk overcoat and I am not sure now that I didn't put the hood on wrong-side-out! I'm a sailor, you know, and these fancy things stump me.

The photographer didn't seem to understand that sort of millinery.

Please keep it dark; your teachers might resent the sudden appearance in the halls of Wellesley of a grim old professor _emeritus_ not known to your faculty." The following has its significance in Sylvia's history and we must give it place--this also to her grandfather:-- "The most interesting lecture I ever heard (except yours!) was given at the college yesterday by Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, the settlement worker and writer on social reforms.