I would rather have you here than all
the wise old heads in the State. So come without fail, no matter
what you are doing. I can't imagine anything which should keep you.
Tell grandma I am longing to be home, and keep thinking just how
cool and nice the kitchen looks, with the hop-vine over the door;
but she will I have to raise the roof soon, for I do believe I've
grown an inch since last winter and am in danger of knocking my
brains out in those low rooms.
'Good-bye till I see you.
'JERRIE.'
CHAPTER XXVII.
'HE COMETH NOT,' SHE SAID.
The _she_ was Jerrie, who, the night before commencement, was shaking
hands with Dick St. Claire, Fred Raymond, Tom Tracy, and Billy Peterkin,
all of whom had arrived on the evening train, and after dinner had come
to pay their respects to the young ladies from Shannondale. The _he_ way
Harold, for whom Jerrie asked at once.
'Where is Harold? Is he coming in the morning?' she said, as she stood,
tall, and straight, and queen-like, before the four young men, who
glanced at each other with a significance in their looks, which she did
not understand.
It was Dick St. Claire who took it upon himself to explain.
'No, Hal is not coming,' he said, 'and he is awfully cut up about it.
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