CHAPTER XXV
"WHEN SUNBRIDGE WENT TO TEXAS"
By the first of May many of the papers for the new prize contest had been turned in. Genevieve's, however, had not. Genevieve was working very hard on her essay now. For some time she had not found a subject that suited her. Good subjects were not very plentiful, she decided. At last she had thought of the Texas trip, and had wondered if she could not compare Sunbridge with Texas. Aunt Julia and Miss Jane had thought decidedly that she could. So for some days now, she had been hard at work upon the paper, and was getting enthusiastically interested.
All papers must be in by the sixteenth. It was on the tenth that Cordelia, during a recess meeting of the Hexagon Club, drew a long breath and turned upon her fellow members a beaming countenance.
"Girls, I can't keep it a minute longer. I've got to tell you!"
"Tell us what?" asked Tilly. "It must be something pretty fine to bring that look to your face!"
Cordelia laughed and blushed; but she sighed, too.
"Oh, it isn't 'fine,' Tilly, at all. I wish it were, though—but really, I do think it's the best thing I ever did, anyway."
"What are you talking about, Cordelia Wilson?" demanded Genevieve.
"Mercy! It must be pretty good if it's the best thing Cordelia ever did," teased Bertha.