"
"I should say so, especially if she is going to keep on giving away her
lunch."
"She lunched with the Bird Woman one day this week."
"She did!"
"Yes, she lives out by the Limberlost. You know the Bird Woman works
there a great deal, and probably knows her that way. I think the girl
gathers specimens for her. Ellen says she knows more than the teachers
about any nature question that comes up, and she is going to lead all of
them in mathematics, and make them work in any branch."
When Elnora entered the coat room after having had luncheon with Ellen
Brownlee there was such a difference in the atmosphere that she could
feel it.
"I am almost sorry I have these clothes," she said to Ellen.
"In the name of sense, why?" cried the astonished girl.
"Every one is so nice to me in them, it sets me to wondering if in time
I could have made them be equally friendly in the others."
Ellen looked at her introspectively. "I believe you could," she
announced at last. "But it would have taken time and heartache, and your
mind would have been less free to work on your studies. No one is happy
without friends, and I just simply can't study when I am unhappy."
That night the Bird Woman made the last trip to the swamp. Every
specimen she possibly could use had been purchased at a fair price, and
three additions had been made to the bank book, carrying the total a
little past two hundred dollars. There remained the Indian relics to
sell on Saturday, and Elnora had secured the order to furnish material
for nature work for the grades.
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