CHAPTER XXVII--CONCLUSION
"And tomorrow is another day; the great day!" Leila Harper sat with clasped hands behind her head, fondly viewing her chums.
The Nine Travelers had gathered in her room for a last intimate talk. Tomorrow would be Commencement. Directly after the exercises were over the nine had agreed to meet for a last celebration at Baretti's. Evening of that day would see them all going their appointed ways.
"I can't make it seem true that you girls won't be back here next year," Marjorie said dolefully, setting down her lemonade glass with a despondent thump, a half-eaten macaroon poised in mid-air.
"Eat your sweet cake child and don't weep," consoled Leila. While she was trying hard to look sad, there was a peculiar gleam in her blue eyes. As yet Marjorie had failed to catch it.
"Nothing will seem the same," grumbled Jerry. "With you four good scouts lifted out of college garden there will be an awful vacancy." Jerry fixed almost mournful eyes on Helen. "Why couldn't you girls have entered a year later or else we a year earlier?" she asked retrospectively.
"Cheer up, Jeremiah. The worst is yet to come." Vera patted Jerry on the back. Standing behind Jerry's chair she cast an odd glance at Leila. Leila passed it on to Helen, who in turn telegraphed some mute message to Katherine Langly.
"I can't see it," Jerry said, her round face unusually sober. "It is hard enough now to have to lose four good pals at one swoop. I sha'n't feel any worse at the last minute tomorrow than I do tonight. I have an actual case of the blues this evening which even lemonade and cakes won't dispel."
"Let us not talk about it," advised Veronica. "Every time the subject comes up we all grow solemn."
"I'm worse off than the rest of you," complained Muriel. "I am torn between two partings. I can't bear to think of losing good old Moretense."
"While we are on the subject of partings," began Leila, ostentatiously clearing her throat, "I regret that I shall have to say something which can but add to your sorrow. I--that is----" She looked at Vera and burst into laughter which carried a distinctly happy note.
"What ails you, Leila Greatheart?" Marjorie focused her attention on the Irish girl's mirthful face. "I am just beginning to see that something unusual is on foot. The idea of parading mysteries before us at the very last minute of your journey through the country of college!"
"'Tis a beautiful country, that." Leila spoke purposely, with a faint brogue. "And did you say it was my last minute there? Suppose it was not? What? As our departed bogie, Miss Cairns, used to say."
"Do you know what you are talking about?" inquired Jerry. "I hope you do. I haven't caught the drift of your remarks--yet."
"Do you tell her then, Midget." Leila fell suddenly silent, her Cheshire cat grin ornamenting her features.
"Oh, let Helen tell it. She knows." Vera beamed on Helen, who passed the task, whatever it might be, on to Katherine. She declined, throwing it back to Leila.
"What is this bad news that none of you will take upon yourselves to tell us?" Lucy's green eyes sought Katherine's in mock reproach.
"I have it." Leila held up a hand. "Now; altogether! We are going to----" she nodded encouragement to Kathie, Vera and Helen.
"We are going to stay!" shouted four voices in concert.
"Stay where? What do----" Jerry stopped abruptly. Her face relaxed of a sudden into one of her wide smiles. She rose and began hugging Helen, shouting: "You don't mean it? Honestly?"
The rest of the Lookouts were going through similar demonstrations of joy. For a moment or two everyone talked and laughed at once. Gradually the first noisy reception of the news subsided and Leila could be heard:
"It's like this, children," she said. "Vera wants to specialize in Greek. I am still keen on physics and psychology. Helen wants to make a new and more comprehensive study of literature, and Kathie is going to teach English. Miss Fernald is leaving and Kathie is to have her place. We've had all we could do to keep it from you. Vera and I might better be here next year than at home. We'd have not much to do there. We are anxious to help make the dream of the dormitory come true."
"It is too beautiful for anything!" was Marjorie's childish but heartfelt rejoicing. "With you four to help us next year we shall accomplish wonders. Oh, I shall love being a senior!"
What Marjorie's senior year at Hamilton brought her will be told in "Marjorie Dean, College Senior."
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