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The Nautilus it. The girls all say I am as cross as two sticks, but I can’t help it. I have been thinking about my essay so much,” Gladys confessed, rather shamefacedly. “I’m just the same way; I’ve dreamed of writing essays three nights in succession, and I called Miss Smith, the algebra teacher, Miss Essay yesterday. I was thinking so bard about that,” said Margery. The girls looked at her in surprise, and Anna Laton whispered to her chum, Ruth Clark: “What’s happened to Margery? She has been walking around with her head in the clouds and has spoken hardly a word to any of us since she began on her essay.” “She is so sure of winning the prize that she condescends to be polite, I suppose,” replied Ruth. Margery blushed, for she had heard both the question and answer. “Hateful things; never mind. If I get the prize, I am not going to do one thing for any of the girls. Mrs. Wilson suggested that I rent a horse and surrey, so that I could take the girls riding, but I won’t, so there,” she thought. “I’ll pay them back if I win the prize.” “Young ladies and gentlemen: I am pleased to annonnce that—” Prof-Manton paused a moment; the room was so quiet that you could have heard a pin drop; “I am pleased to announce,” he continued, “that Miss Margery Benton has won the two hun- dred dollar prize offered by Mr. James of San Francisco for the best essay on ‘Fads’—there was faint applause— “and Miss Gladys Mason honorable mention for the second best. I extend to these young ladies my congratulations, and to those who tried, but did not win, my appreciation of their efforts. I will allow you fifteen minutes in which to congratulate them if you are not too demonstrative.” The next few moments were very happy ones to Margery until she happened to overhear a conversation- “I’m so sorry Gladys did not get it I don’t know what to do,” one girl was sayiug. “Her aunt told mother how much she expected to help her mother with it. I just know Margery will spend it every bit on herself, and she doesn’t need a thing. I hate selfish people!” At that moment, Gladys came up. “I wouldn't say that, for she is just thoughtless, and any way we do not know how she is going to use her money.” Margery did not wait to hear any more, but hurried away to think. Was it true? Yes; all too true. She had been selfish; the girls had no reason to like her, for her one object had always been—herself. “I will begin today and make the girls like me. Let’s see; what can I do to help some one else? I’ll go and talk to Mrs- Wilson, and see what she thinks.” A great opportunity came before (Continued on page 69) 16
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The Nautilus should n’t I try for the prize? I am about the brightest girl in school, as Gladys says, and just think what I could do! Let’s see: I want a blue dress, like Mary’s, although I don’t really need another thing. And I should like to go to the mountains in August, but that leaves Mrs. Wilson here alone in the hottest part of the summer; and I would like to give a dinner that would outshine Ruth Clark’s, but Mrs. Wilson thinks I’m too young.” Every pleasure she thought of for herself was countermanded by discomforts to some one else, but she never thought of these very long. Just as she had decided how nice it would be to buy a riding horse and make the other girls envious of her, Mrs. Wilson, her guardian’s wife, came in. “Margery,”said Mrs. Wilson,“Mrs Laton has invited you over there this evening, and I have decided that you may go, but be home by ten, because it is not proper for young ladies to remain later.” “I should like to know what right you have to decide whether I may go or not, or liow long I shall stay. I am perfectly capable of doing that myself,” began Margery, but as she saw the look of pain cross Mrs. Wilson’s face, she cried, in instant penitence, “Oh, Mrs. Wilson, please forgive me, for I just didn’t think!” That was the trouble with Margery; she did not think of any one but herself. She was a bright and attractive girl, but, as she said, she just didn,t think of others and had grown very selfish. An entirely different scene was go ing on in the little house where Gladys lived. “Oh, Aunt Alice,” she cried, “some one has offered two hundred dollars for an essay,” and she went on to tell the story of the prize. “If I win it,” she concluded, “mother can stay in San Francisco longer, for, although she says she is getting strong, I should like to have her remain; but we cannot afford it unless I win the prize, for it took all the money we had in the bank to send her there. I am afraid she needs some new things, also!” “I hope you will win it dearie, for you deserve it for being so unselfish,” said her aunt, with an approving smile. “Nonsense, Auntie! I am not working for myself, but for mother, and any one would be unselfish with such an object.” About two weeks later, Margery, Gladys and some other girls were walking to school together. They were talking of the prize, the winn e of which was to be announced that morning. “I will be so glad when it’s over, for I have thought of it so much. The other night Aunt Alice came into my room and heard me talking about a pencil and paper to write a commencement essay. Of course, I was dreaming, but it frightened Auntie, for she thought I was making myself ill over 15
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