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THE SCAXDAL-MOXGERS
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THE PURSE IS FOUND UNDER NORRINE's PILLOW
looks and looks. What an awful thing a guilty conscience must be! Poor girl ! I must send her a glass of grape jelly, it's so soothing.
"Of course, everybody will shun her here as they did at the school. Ethel stood by her nobly, tho, thru it all. Ethel really has a remarkable disposition — so strong and reliable. It would be just like her to spend her whole Thanksgiving vacation in trying to cheer up Norrine. She would think it so selfish to go out and have a good time while her friend was in misery. She's like that, you know. ' '
Mrs. Gerhart was right, in so far as Ethel's probable devotion to her friend was concerned. The girl had every intention of acting nobly toward Norrine at Thanksgiving time, but she was still so blinded by jealousy that she could not see that her kindness was late in showing itself.
Her plans, however, were forestalled by the arrival of a young evangelist, the Rev. Robert Read, who began to hold revival meetings in the town. He went among the townsfolk, called on Mrs. Gerhart and Mrs. Lucas, whose respective natures he soon read, met Norrine and was so attracted by her sad sweet face that he came, not once but many times, always with the right word for the suffering girl, until she began to rise above the crushing weight which had fallen upon her and to take a new interest in life. From her own lips he heard the whole story — incidentally learning much of Ethel's character — and, putting two and two together, soon made up his mind that he had solved the mystery.
When Ethel came home for her vacation he went to call, and, without seeming to do so, watched the girl keenly. He found a certain harassed