CHAPTER XXIX.
WHY HAROLD DID NOT GO TO VASSAR.
The cottage in the lane, as its name implied, was not very pretentious, and all its rooms were small and low, and mostly upon the ground floor, except the one which Jerrie had occupied since she had grown too large for the crib by Mrs.Crawford's bed.

In this room, in which there was but one window, and where the roof slanted down on both sides, Jerrie kept all her possessions--her playthings and her books, and the trunk and carpet-bag which had been found when she was found.

Here she had cut off her hair and slept on the floor, to see how it would seem, and here she had enacted many a play, in which the scenes and characters were all of the past.

For the cold in winter she did not care at all, and when in summer the nights were close and hot, she drew her little bed to the open window and fell asleep while thinking how warm she was.

That she ought to have a better room had never occurred to her, and never had she found a word of fault or repined at her humble surroundings, so different from those of her girl friends.