If Father makes any mention of anything I would like particularly to have for a graduation present, I am cocked and primed as to what I shall tell him." "You'd better save yourself a disappointment," said Linda soberly.

"You will be starting to college this fall, and when you do you will be gone nine months out of the year, and I am fairly sure your father wouldn't think shipping a Bear Cat back and forth a good investment, or furnishing you one to take to school with you.

He would fear you would never make a grade that would be a credit to him if he did." "My!" laughed Donald, "you've got a long head on your shoulders!" "When you're thrown on your own for four of the longest, lonesomest years of your life, you learn to think," said Linda soberly.
She was touching the beginning of Los Angeles traffic.

Later she was on the open road again.

The mists were thinning and lifting.