  “The magic of yon sailing moon Lures my poor heartstrings out of me; God’s moonshine whitens the lagoon: The earth’s a silver mystery.” “Why, Hal, I didn’t know you knew that poem!” Marjorie stood beside Hal at the top of the veranda steps bathed in the white moonlight. Looking at her, Hal had quoted the verse of old Irish poetry. “Leila must have taught you that.” She smiled, but there was a tiny ache in her heart. “You taught me that. You recited it one night when we were down on the beach. That was last summer. It seems longer ago.” “So I did. I had forgotten.” For some unknown reason Marjorie felt lighter of heart. The tiny pain was gone. “That was a white moonlight night. So is this. Come and take a walk.” Hal stretched out a hand to Marjorie. “I’m grateful for hospitality. What a corking old piece of magnificence the Arms is! I wish I had time to see it thoroughly. I’d invade your study and bother you. I give you fair warning.” “Why can’t you stay at the Arms for a few days, Hal? Jerry will be so disappointed. You can’t know as I know how much she loves you.” “I know.” Hal nodded. “Jerry will be home before long. But you won’t be home for—” He paused. “Are you coming home in June?” “I don’t know.” The answer came doubtfully. “The biography won’t be finished until some time next winter. I must come back to Hamilton next fall to see to our dormitory interest. There are other things, too. Captain and General wish me at home, and Miss Susanna wishes me here, and— “I want you myself, Marjorie.” Hal’s quick utterance had the virile quality now which had thrilled her when he sang. “Why do I tell you this again when I’ve sworn to myself I’d never trouble you? “Hal, I—” They were crossing the lawn now strolling aimlessly along under the moon’s pale rays. They came to an immense flowering almond bush. It lifted burgeoning pink clusters, a mass of rioting bloom under the white light. “Hal, I always mean to be kind to you.” Marjorie did better this time. “I wish you wouldn’t feel that you have troubled me. I have read Brooke Hamilton’s love story. I understand more of love than I used. I know that true love is—it is—” “What do you know of love?” Hal’s hands suddenly dropped lightly upon her shoulders. The two had stopped before the great pink bush, facing each other, their young features set with the terrific earnestness of youth. “Have you grown up? Do you love me?” “I—have grown up this much—I—understand the worth of true love, Hal. That is—” “Not loving me yet, but very near it,” came the tender interruption. Hal’s hands slipped from Marjorie’s shoulders. “I love you,” he said. “I love you.” Marjorie regarded him silently. She knew that Hal was fighting against loving her. That in a “What is it, Marjorie?” Hal reached for her hands, caught them, held them unresisting in his own. Came a silence. A faint vagrant night breeze stirred the trees, touched the faces of the two besides the almond bush. Very gently Hal drew his Violet Girl into his arms. “It must be a whole year from now, Hal,” Marjorie said later with charming practicality. They were walking toward the house now in answer to at least five minutes’ intermittent whistling of Jerry from the veranda. “Stop a minute.” Hal drew Marjorie into the shadow of a tall shrub. “I have oceans to do. I told you all about it a little while ago. Work is work. It can’t be done in a minute. But it can be accomplished by next June. Then I’ll be—I’ll be—” “Marjorie Dean Macy,” Hal said, and he punctuated these three euphonic words in true THE END. SAVE THE WRAPPER! 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Page 6, double quote inserted before ‘Here’s,’ “teased Marjorie. “Here’s another.” Page 24, ‘paricular’ changed to ‘particular,’ “This particular set of” Page 25, full stop struck following ‘HEART,’ “THE SPRINGTIME OF THE HEART” Page 25, double quote inserted before ‘Now,’ “way. “Now I shall” Page 28, comma changed to full stop after ‘Hamilton,’ “room with Miss Hamilton.” Page 31, ‘simple’ changed to ‘simply,’ “She simply loves to act” Page 34, ‘maybe’ changed to ‘may be,’ “it may be midnight ere” Page 35, ‘Hamilton’s’ changed to ‘Hamiltons,’ “servitor of the Hamiltons” Page 37, comma inserted after ‘Hall,’ “at the Hall, the eight” Page 43, ‘admited’ changed to ‘admitted,’ “Jerry admitted with” Page 47, single quote inserted after ‘Baretti,’ “know, Signor Baretti.’” Page 48, ‘Appasionata’ changed to ‘Appassionata,’ “Beethoven’s ‘Sonata Appassionata.’” Page 50, ‘anythings’ changed to ‘anything,’ “deference than anything else” Page 54, comma struck after ‘Doris,’ “left Doris the Dazzler” Page 56, full stop inserted after ‘personally,’ “about her personally.” Page 58, ‘Sussanna’ changed to ‘Susanna,’ “about Miss Susanna” Page 69, ‘a’ struck after ‘been,’ “had been respectively” Page 71, ‘bouyant’ changed to ‘buoyant,’ “made a buoyant exit” Page 73, em-dash inserted between ‘Yes’ and ‘I,’ “Yes—I had an idea” Page 79, single quote changed to double quote before ‘Miss,’ ““Miss Harper was impersonal” Page 80, double quote inserted after ‘girls,’ “Sanford crowd of girls.”” Page 86, second full stop struck after ‘romp,’ “be at the romp.” Page 86, ‘invited’ changed to ‘uninvited,’ “as an uninvited masker at” Page 88, ‘let’s’ changed to ‘lets,’ “That lets you out” Page 90, full stop inserted after ‘are,’ “I presume you are.” Page 90, ‘three’ changed to ‘four,’ “Those four words, “I presume you are,”” Page 90, double quote struck after ‘Leslie,’ “had known Leslie.” Page 97, ‘wont’ changed to ‘won’t,’ “we won’t be in” Page 98, ‘they’ inserted before ‘testified,’ “manly chest; they testified eloquently” Page 106, ‘horried’ changed to ‘horrid,’ “helped that horrid Miss” Page 106, ‘sopohomore’ changed to ‘sophomore,’ “Among sophomore details” Page 113, ‘umberella’ changed to ‘umbrella,’ “She brandished her umbrella” Page 118, ‘hurridly’ changed to ‘hurriedly,’ “Leila had hurriedly given” Page 119, ‘losenges’ changed to ‘lozenges,’ “lozenges and crimson” Page 122, double quote inserted after ‘all,’ “not at all.” Doris” Page 122, double quote struck before ‘Julia,’ “Julia cast a frowning” Page 123, ‘re-asssuring’ changed to ‘re-assuring,’ “was not re-assuring” Page 130, full stop inserted after ‘have,’ “and I never have.” Page 132, ‘unwieldly’ changed to ‘unwieldy,’ “that unwieldy umbrella” Page 133, ‘is’ changed to ‘it,’ “Yes, it was Bean” Page 137, ‘Hamiliton’ changed to ‘Hamilton,’ “since I entered Hamilton” Page 144, ‘mistresss’ changed to ‘mistress,’ “the mistress of the Arms” Page 153, ‘daguerrotype’ changed to ‘daguerreotype,’ “me a small daguerreotype” Page 153, single quote inserted after ‘Arms,’ “the Arms.’ She said” Page 156, ‘prevading’ changed to ‘pervading,’ “broke the hush pervading” Page 162, ‘choose’ changed to ‘chose,’ “Marjorie chose the campus” Page 163, double quote struck before ‘I’ve,’ “a drive. I’ve not” Page 165, ‘be’ inserted before ‘made,’ “had to be made over” Page 165, ‘jubiliant’ changed to ‘jubilant,’ “both were jubilant over” Page 166, ‘lieutenant’ changed to ‘Lieutenant,’ “Bean making Lieutenant Bean” Page 176, ‘authoratative’ changed to ‘authoritative,’ “dryly authoritative prediction” Page 178, ‘Lelia’ changed to ‘Leila,’ “side of it, Leila” Page 180, ‘harrass’ changed to ‘harass,’ “but harass and torment” Page 180, single quote and full stop transposed after ‘amazin,’ “it is that amazin’.” Page 180, double quote inserted before ‘We,’ ““We have an old” Page 180, single quote inserted after ‘him,’ “the hangman has him?’” Page 184, second ‘been’ struck, “she had been received” Page 185, double quote inserted after ‘with,’ ““get away with” whatever” Page 187, ‘succint’ changed to ‘succinct,’ “was the succinct counsel” Page 189, single quote struck after ‘Cairns,’ “after Peter Cairns instead” Page 194, ‘caste’ changed to ‘cast,’ “their customary aloof cast” Page 196, ‘chosing’ changed to ‘choosing,’ “in choosing the words” Page 197, double quote inserted after ‘for,’ “to make up for—”” Page 203, ‘off’ changed to ‘of,’ “flashed out of the door” Page 208, ‘tumultous’ changed to ‘tumultuous,’ “Arms and tumultuous happiness” Page 226, ‘dilligently’ changed to ‘diligently,’ “at it diligently. She” Page 229, ‘f’ changed to ‘of,’ “The Knight of the Northern Sun” Page 229, full stop changed to comma after ‘Sun,’ “the Northern Sun,” Leila paid” Page 235, ‘neice’ changed to ‘niece,’ “Mona, the earl’s niece” Page 240, ‘converstation’ changed to ‘conversation,’ “engaged in conversation with” Page 241, ‘planing’ changed to ‘planning,’ “I’m planning a trip” Page 242, ‘Hall’ changed to ‘Hal,’ “Hal could not resist” Page 243, double quote inserted before ‘Why,’ ““Why, Hal, I didn’t” Page 245, ‘terrfic’ changed to ‘terrific,’ “with the terrific earnestness” Ad Page 5, ‘ALLENS’ changed to ‘ALLEN’S,’ “THE GIRL SCOUTS AT MISS ALLEN’S SCHOOL” |
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