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Jerry

CHAPTER X
14/17

The Yale Glee Club came to Westfield that year just before the holidays began, and Miss Jane let everybody go to the concert whose deportment had been above eighty--that of course included me.
'Well, we all went, and we all fell in love--in a body--with a sophomore who played the banjo and sang negro songs.

He had lovely dark gazelle-like eyes, and he sang funny songs without smiling.

The whole school raved about him all the way home; we cut his picture out of the programme and pasted in the front of our watches.

His name, father'-- she paused dramatically--'was Jerymn Hilliard Junior!' 'I sat up half the night writing diplomatic letters to you and Mrs.
Hilliard; and the next day when it got around that I was actually going to visit in his house--well, I was the most popular girl in school.

I was sixteen years old then; I wore sailor suits and my hair was braided down my back.


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