that while she was still "A Little Miss Nobody."

Mr. Gordon had gone back to his practice ere this. He was much aged in
appearance and would always walk with a limp; but his confidential
clerk, a certain red-haired youth in whom Jennie Bruce would always have
a particular interest, was at hand to take the burden of work from the
lawyer's shoulders when need came.

Perhaps Patrick Sarsfield O'Brien outstripped everybody else in the
changes that came. In six months (during which he diligently applied
himself to the night school course) he shed his slang like a mantle.
Instead of cheap detective stories hidden in his desk, he had
text-books.

He is, in fact, a rising young man, and will be a good lawyer some day.
Mr. Gordon is very proud of him.

And so is Nancy. Scorch was her first friend, and she will never forget
him or cease to be interested in his growth and welfare.

Nancy and Jennie are climbing the scholastic hill together. Already the
girls and teachers of the Hall are beginning to brag about Nancy Nelson.
She stands at the head of her class, she is stroke of the school eight,
champion on the ice, and has won a state tennis championship medal in
the yearly tournament of school clubs. She is no longer "A Little Miss
Nobody."

Yet she remains the same gentle, rather timid girl she always was. She
can fight for the rights of others; but she does not put forth her own
claims to particular attention.

"Pshaw! You let folks walk all over you just the same as ever, Nance!"
her chum, Jennie, declares. "Haven't you any spunk?"

"I--I don't want to fight them," Nancy replies.

"Goodness to gracious and eight hands around!" ejaculates Jennie, with
exasperation. "If it hadn't been for Scorch and me you'd never got hold
of your fortune and sent the Montgomerys back to the tall pines. You
know you wouldn't!"

But Nancy only smiles at that. She doesn't mind having her chum take for
herself a big share of the credit for this happy outcome of her affairs.

THE END

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Something About
AMY BELL MARLOWE
And Her Books For Girls

In these days, when the printing presses are turning out so many books
for girls that are good, bad and indifferent, it is refreshing to come
upon the works of such a gifted authoress as Miss Amy Bell Marlowe, who
is now under contract to write exclusively for Messrs. Grosset & Dunlap.

In many ways Miss Marlowe's books may be compared with t