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I ought to have a few things in my life as I want them. Something must
be done."

Then Linda proceeded to do something. What she did was to lean forward,
rest her head upon the steering wheel and fight to keep down deep,
pitiful sobbing until her whole slender body twisted in the effort.

She was yielding to a breaking up after four years of endurance, for the
greater part in silence. As the months of the past year had rolled their
deliberate way, Linda had begun to realize that the course her elder
sister had taken was wholly unfair to her, and slowly a tumult of revolt
was growing in her soul. Without a doubt the culmination had resulted
from her few minutes' talk with Donald Whiting in the hall that morning.
It had started Linda to thinking deeply, and the more deeply she thought
the clearly she saw the situation. Linda was a loyal soul and her heart
was honest. She was quite willing that Eileen should: exercise her
rights as head of the family, that she should take the precedence to
which she was entitled by her four years' seniority, that she should
spend the money which accrued monthly from their father's estate as she
saw fit, up to a certain point. That point was where things ceased to
be fair or to be just. If there had been money to do no more for Eileen
than had been done for Linda, it would not have been in Linda's heart
to utter a complaint. She could have worn scuffed shoes and old dresses,
and gone her way with her proud young head held very high and a jest on
her lips; but when her mind really fastened on the problem and she began
to reason, she could not feel that Eileen was just to her or that she
was fair in her administration of the money which should have been
divided more nearly equally between them, after the household expenses
had been paid. Once rebellion burned in her heart the flames leaped
rapidly, and Linda began to remember a thousand small things that she
had scarcely noted at the time of their occurrence.

She was leaning on the steering wheel, tired with nerve strain, when she
heard Katy calling her, and realized that she was needed in the kitchen.
As a matter of economy Eileen, after her parents' passing, had dismissed
the housemaid, and when there were guests before whom she wished to make
a nice appearance Linda had been impressed either to wait on the table
or to help in the kitchen in order that Katy might attend the dining
room, so Linda understood what was wanted when Katy ca