The swamp had sent back the soul of her loved
dead and put it into the body of the daughter she resented, and it was
almost more than she could endure and live.
CHAPTER XI
WHEREIN ELNORA GRADUATES, AND FRECKLES AND THE ANGEL SEND GIFTS
That was Friday night. Elnora came home Saturday morning and began work.
Mrs. Comstock asked no questions, and the girl only told her that
the audience had been large enough to more than pay for the piece of
statuary the class had selected for the hall. Then she inquired about
her dresses and was told they would be ready for her. She had been
invited to go to the Bird Woman's to prepare for both the sermon and
Commencement exercises. Since there was so much practising to do, it had
been arranged that she should remain there from the night of the sermon
until after she was graduated. If Mrs. Comstock decided to attend she
was to drive in with the Sintons. When Elnora begged her to come she
said she cared nothing about such silliness.
It was almost time for Wesley to come to take Elnora to the city, when
fresh from her bath, and dressed to her outer garment, she stood with
expectant face before her mother and cried: "Now my dress, mother!"
Mrs. Comstock was pale as she replied: "It's on my bed. Help yourself."
Elnora opened the door and stepped into her mother's room with never a
misgiving. Since the night Margaret and Wesley had brought her clothing,
when she first started to school, her mother had selected all of her
dresses, with Mrs.
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