But possibly you know the whole story ?" "I know nothing," I cried eagerly.

"You will be furthering her interests, as well as doing me a great personal favor, if you will tell me what you know." "It is very little," she answered, leaning back against the edge of the table and regarding me seriously.

"Poor Elma! Her people treated her very badly indeed.

They sent her no money, and allowed her no holidays, and yet she was the sweetest-tempered and most patient girl in the whole school." "Well--and the story regarding her ?" "It was supposed that her people at Durham did not exist," she explained.

"Elma had evidently lived a greater part of her life abroad, for she could speak French and Italian better than the professor himself, and therefore always won the prizes.