ng to stay for the Jubilee. Oh, I'm so happy, I am
so happy," she sang.
"I'm so glad," said the two friends in one breath.
"I'm getting rooms for them at O'Reilly's and they will arrive on the
ten train. Isn't it lucky Mrs. O'Reilly is our bright, particular
friend? We never could have got the rooms. Everything in the village is
taken."
The crowds had indeed come pouring into Wellington for the great Jubilee
celebration for which every student at the college had been working for
months past. And now, almost the first of May, everything was in
readiness, the pageants, the costumes, the plays--all the splendid and
complicated arrangements for an Old English May Day Festival. Judy, as
she had planned on the opening night of college all those long months
ago, was to be a gentleman of the court and was now engaged in
constructing a velvet cape with Nance's assistance. Furthermore all the
girls were to take part in the senior outdoor play to be given on the
afternoon of the Jubilee celebration, and Molly, wonderful as it seemed
to her afterward, had won for herself by excellent recitation the part
of Rosalind. There had been many Rosalind competitors but Professor
Green and the professional who had come down to coach chose Molly from
them all.
How they had practiced and rehearsed and worked over that play not one
of the senior cast will ever forget. But now it was ready and the time
was ripe for the grand performance. In two days it was to take place.
The next morning, in response to the telegram, the three friends met
Molly's brother and sister at the station. They were a good looking
pair, as Nance pronounced them, but not the least like Molly. Minnie or
Mildred Brown was as pretty as Molly in her way. She had an aquiline
nose that spoke of family, brown hair curling bewitchingly about her
face and a beautifully modeled mouth and chin. Kent was different,
too--tall with gravely humorous gray eyes, his mouth rather large and
shapely, his nose a little small--but he was very handsome and his
manners were perfection. He took to Judy at once. She amused and
mystified him and she volunteered after lunch to show him all the sights
of Wellington. Another visitor at Wellington was Jimmy Lufton, who had
come down to see the celebration regardless of work and expenses, and
ordered Molly a beautiful bouquet of narcissus to be handed to her when
she appeared as Rosalind.
Molly introduced him to Kent and Minnie and the thre
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