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Example in this ebook. I Aunt Cal. “But this aunt of yours Sandy what’s she like?� Eve asked. She was parked on the couch in my room. Hattie May Lewis my roommate stood before the mirror trying to arrange her straight straw-colored hair into a windblown bob. It was the week before the closing of school for the summer vacation and we were all looking ahead in one way or another to what the next three months held in store for us.“Well� I considered “I don’t honestly know much about Aunt Cal except the little Dad has told me. She’s an aunt by marriage you know. She married my mother’s brother my Uncle Tom Poole he was. They went West to live for a time but after Uncle Tom died she came back to Fishers Haven. She’s lived alone there ever since.�“Narrow!� ejaculated Hattie May “and very likely queer besides! You can depend upon it. I know how old women get who live alone in the country.� Saying what she thought about people whether they were present or not was part of what Hattie May called her code of speaking the truth.“Well perhaps� I admitted. “But she’s not so very old.� I felt slightly annoyed with Hattie May and wished she would go downstairs. I was anxious for a very special reason to make Aunt Cal seem attractive to the girl on the couch. For though Hattie May had been my roommate this first year at school it was Eve Fordyce’s opinions on most subjects which had come to matter.But Hattie May showed no inclination to depart so I went on. “Perhaps you’d like to hear what Dad says about her� I suggested. I reached into a pigeon-hole in my desk and took out a thin paper envelope with a foreign stamp. My father is a missionary in China you see and that’s why the long vacation didn’t mean to me quite what it did to the other girls. It meant a summer spent with some one of a rather scattered collection of relatives none of whom I remembered in the least. This summer it was to mean Aunt Cal.“Oh yes; let’s hear it.� Eve smiled encouragingly from the cushions. I suppose she saw how in earnest I was.“Your Aunt Calliope� Dad wrote “is in many ways a remarkable woman and I feel that you cannot but profit by her acquaintance. It is however not entirely on your own account that I have suggested this visit. I am hoping that she in turn may reap some benefit from your stay with her. I must confess that the occasional letters which we have had from her within the last few years have reflected a certain melancholy trend of thought which has given me some concern. So I am hoping my dear daughter that you will bring her something of your own happy——�“Well that’s about all� I broke off because of that sudden chokiness that comes over me still at times even though ten whole months have gone by since I said good-bye to Mother and Dad on the dock at Shanghai.“What’d I tell you!� exclaimed Hattie May triumphantly. “Queer! Queer and brooding! Honest Sandy I can’t say I envy you your summer.�“Oh I don’t know� Eve drawled. “I think she sounds rather interesting. And I don’t think she necessarily has to be narrow because she’s lived in a New England village most of her life. As for being queer—well everybody is a little aren’t they?�I threw her a grateful glance. “Maybe you’d like to hear her letter too� I said on a sudden impulse. “It just came today. Of course it doesn’t say much� I added a little doubtful on second thought of the wisdom of revealing Aunt Cal any further with Hattie May in the room.“I’ll bet it says plenty!� Hattie May swung round. Her small bright eyes fairly pounced on the letter as I pulled it from its envelope. “You can tell a lot by handwriting and—well reading between the lines.�“There’s nothing written between the lines� I said though I knew of course what she was driving at. The letter was written in a straight angular hand and was very short.. To be continue in this ebook.....................................................................