"Why are you wasting all this time?
If there is a letter from Marian it may mean that the competition is decided; but if it is, she loses, because she was to telegraph if she won." Linda rushed into the house and carried her belongings to her workroom.
She dropped them on the table and looked at them.
"I'll get you off my mind first," she said to the Morrison package, which enclosed a new article entitled "How to Grow Good Citizens." With it was a scrawled line, "I'm leaving the head and heels of the future to you." "How fine!" exulted Linda.

"He must have liked the head and tail pieces I drew for his other article, so he wants the same for this, and if he is well paid for his article, maybe in time, after I've settled for my hearth motto, he will pay me something for my work.

Gal-lum-shus!" As she opened the letter from Marian she slowly shook her head.
"Drat the luck," she muttered, "no good news here." Slowly and absorbedly she read: DEAREST LINDA: No telegram to send.

I grazed the first prize and missed the second because Henry Anderson wins with plans so like mine that they are practically duplicates.

I have not seen the winning plans.