"'Sais pas! They're clever girls, too. She knows the pick of the class—but then, she always did, you know."

"I suppose she'll marry money," mused Biscuits, the student of human nature.

"Du tout!" Suzanne returned, "she won't care about that. It's clever people she wants—she always went with the clever ones: elle aime les gens d'esprit. She's got money enough; she'll marry some clever man who knows the best people and will make her one of them—vous l'verrez!"

And the prophecy was fulfilled, for Evangeline very shortly married Walter Endicott, the well-known artist, whose portrait of her in white and gold attracted so much attention at a very recent Salon.

THE NINTH STORY

AT COMMENCEMENT

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AT COMMENCEMENT

I
DRAMATICS