“Well, sir?” inquired his grandfather.

“May I have some of the money you’re going to leave me, to give now, just as Ethelwyn and Beth did?” asked Bobby.

“How do you know I’m going to leave you any, you young freebooter?”

“Well, I s’posed you would; most people would think so, ’cause I’m named for you, and you always said you liked me,” remarked Bobby, somewhat embarrassed.

His grandfather patted him comfortingly on the back.

“Yes, Bobby, I do like you, and all the better for your request.  We’ll build the infirmary, and maybe more.  I am open to conviction no more,” he added, looking towards Mrs. Rayburn, “for I am convicted and I hope converted.”

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MOLLY BROWN SERIES College Life Stories for Girls

By NELL SPEED.

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MOLLY BROWN’S FRESHMAN DAYS.

Would you like to admit to your circle of friends the most charming of college girls—­the typical college girl for whom we are always looking but not always finding; the type that contains so many delightful characteristics, yet without unpleasant perfection in any; the natural, unaffected, sweet-tempered girl, loved because she is lovable?  Then seek an introduction to Molly Brown.  You will find the baggage-master, the cook, the Professor of English Literature, and the College President in the same company.

MOLLY BROWN’S SOPHOMORE DAYS.

What is more delightful than a re-union of college girls after the summer vacation?  Certainly nothing that precedes it in their experience—­at least, if all class-mates are as happy together as the Wellington girls of this story.  Among Molly’s interesting friends of the second year is a young Japanese girl, who ingratiates her “humbly” self into everybody’s affections speedily and permanently.

MOLLY BROWN’S JUNIOR DAYS.

Financial stumbling blocks are not the only things that hinder the ease and increase the strength of college girls.  Their troubles and their triumphs are their own, often peculiar to their environment.  How Wellington students meet the experiences outside the class-rooms is worth the doing, the telling and the reading.

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MOTOR MAIDS SERIES Wholesome Stories of Adventure

By KATHERINE STOKES.

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THE MOTOR MAIDS’ SCHOOL DAYS.

Billie Campbell was just the type of a straightforward, athletic girl to be successful as a practical Motor Maid.  She took her car, as she did her class-mates, to her heart, and many a grand good time did they have all together.  The road over which she ran her red machine had many an unexpected turning,—­now it led her into peculiar danger; now into contact with strange travelers; and again into experiences by fire and water.  But, best of all, “The Comet” never failed its brave girl owner.