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Y to one of her boon companions, a day-pupil at the school, and one of
the brightest in it, but, like Helen, not embarrassed with riches. For
some time the girls had been saving their small allowances toward the
purchase of cameras, but so slowly did the sums accumulate that it was
rather discouraging for them. They were now talking about their
respective ways of procuring the sums of money needed, and the trifle
they had managed to save, and the small amounts they earned in one way
or another, to augment the original sums, seemed so paltry to Toinette,
who never stopped to ask whence came the five-dollar bills so regularly
sent her each week, and who, had a fancy entered her head for one, would
have walked out and bought a camera very much as she would have bought a
paper of pins. CHAPTER XXI CONSPIRATORS Mr. Reeve would have risen from
his snug corner and discovered himself to the girls, but Toinette laid
her finger upon her lips to enjoin silence, and, although he could not
quite understand her desire to play eavesdropper, he complied. From the
subject of the cameras the girls went on to Helen's work in the art
class, for Jean was much interested in that also, and they often built
air-castles about the wonderful things they would do when that fabulous
"stone ship" should sail safely into port. They talked earnestly for
girls of thirteen and fifteen, and Mr. Reeve could not fail to be
impressed by the strength of purpose they seemed to possess, and, having
a good bit of stick-to-ativeness himself, admired it in others.
Moreover, he had been forced to make his own way in life when young, and
could sympathize with other aspiring souls. Presently the two girls
moved away, and then Toinette whispered: "I don't know what you think of
me for making you play 'Paul Pry,' but I had a reason for it, and now
I'll tell you what it was." "I inferred as much, so kept mum." "Well,
you see, since I've been here I've waked up a little, and, somehow, have
begun to think about other people, and wonder if they were happy. At
Miss Carter's school everybody just seemed to think about themselves,
or, if they thought of anybody else, it was generally to wonder how they
could get ahead of them in some way. But here it is all so different,
and everybody seems to try to find out what they can do to make someone
else happy. I can't begin to tell you how it is done, because I don't
know myself; only it _is_, and it makes you feel sort of happy all
over," said Toinette, trying to put into words that subtle something
which makes us feel at peace with