Molly Brown's College Friends

The ballroom was crowded but very quiet. The belle of the ball was the night nurse, deftly accomplishing the many duties that fall to the share of a night nurse. A letter must b...

Molly and Edwin found themselves deeper in this agricultural scheme than they had at first bargained for. If it was to be done at all, it must be well done and quickly. There mu...

"Lots of reasons!" answered Nance, smiling at her little companion. Mildred had moved herself and all her belongings into the guest-chamber. Her mother had at first objected, bu...

"I'll be bound you have. I never saw such a Mrs. Machiavelli!--First I mustn't go in the library but stick to the den, and now that I had just made myself at home in the den I m...

This conversation was interrupted by the loud ringing of the telephone bell, which proved to be a long distance call for Judy from Mr. Kean in New York. His marching orders had...

The only home Nance Oldham had ever known she had made herself after she left college. Her childhood and girlhood had been spent in boarding houses with her patient father, whil...

The small home wedding that Nance and Molly had originally planned grew to be quite large. Little by little it seemed impossible to get married without first one person and then...

Edwin Green occasionally had an attack of neuralgia that incapacitated him for work for at least a day, so when Molly solemnly gave out the news that her poor husband was suffer...

"Now you sound like yourself, honey, but oh, please act like yourself! The real Nance Oldham could not be so cruel as to go off without letting me explain--I have no excuse--the...

"I'll wager anything she is the same old Nance Oldham," insisted Professor Green, obediently mounting the ladder to hang the last snowy curtain at the broad, deep window in the...

There was a very serious meeting of students of Wellington being held in the library of the Square Deal. Twenty of the leading spirits of the student body had asked Mrs. Edwin G...

"Suppose they get off at Manhattan Junction and go to the Hudson Terminal instead of the big Pennsylvania Station!" panted Judy, her eyes shining with excitement and her fluffy...

"Aunt Judy, my Poilu is tellible sick! He can't open up his mouf mo'n 'bout a minute far. Won't you please, ma'm, punch it open wif the button hook so's I kin poke some breafkas...

The first one of the old girls to arrive was Otoyo, Mrs. Matsuki, with the little Cho-Cho-San. Otoyo had changed not at all in the years that had elapsed since college days. Per...

"I came from New York with a very interesting couple," said Judy the next day as she vigorously stitched away at some of the wedding finery. "Of course I talked to them--I alway...

As the two quietly-dressed, intelligent looking men were in the act of going through a desk, they saw from the window the slow and painful approach of M. Misel. Without a word t...

It was after ten o'clock as the three veiled figures glided from the square house on the campus. The night was dark, fit for the deed they had to do. They did not know what the...

The Welsh rarebit was just assuming its required thickness and smoothness and the toast was done to a turn ready to receive its libation of cheese, when the wanderers came patte...

Molly, coming in hurriedly from her labors at the French War Relief rooms where she had been engaged in making surgical dressings until her back ached so that she had more sympa...

"Oh, Andy! I'm so glad!" and Molly reached a hand out to her two friends, who were perforce placed across the table from each other since there were only four for dinner.

"Ahem!" said Billie, rapping for order as the girls began all at once to say what they thought of "Fairy Godmothers Wanted." The one with the burning plot began rattling her pap...

What a chattering there was as the crowd of girls gathered for the weekly meeting of their literary club! Professor Green beat a hasty retreat from the library. He declared that...

The last rice thrown and the bridal party gone! Molly and Judy all that was left of the gay girls! The old crowd once more dispersed! I wonder if they will ever come together ag...

The side door of the cottage, leading to the garden, now opened as though at Katherine's orders, and a broad ribbon of light fell across the labyrinth, picking out the snub-nose...