She insisted
that it should go off that very day, and herself wrote the
directions upon the outside wrapper. Then the two went down
together to the Wells Fargo office, and "In Defiance of Authority"
was sent on its journey across the continent.
"Now," she said, as they came out of the express office and stood
for a moment upon the steps, "now there's nothing to do but wait
for the Centennial Company. I do so hope we'll get their answer
before I go away. They OUGHT to take it. It's just what they
asked for. Don't you think they'll take it, Condy?"
"Oh, bother that!" answered Condy. "I don't care whether they
take it or not. How long now is it before you go, Blix?"
Chapter XIII
A week passed; then another. The year was coming to a close. In
ten days Blix would be gone. Letters had been received from Aunt
Kihm, and also an exquisite black leather traveling-case, a
present to her niece, full of cut-glass bottles, ebony-backed
brushes, and shell combs. Blix was to leave on the second day of
January. In the meanwhile she had been reading far into her
first-year text-books, underscoring and annotating, studying for
hours upon such subjects as she did not understand, so that she
might get hold of her work the readier when it came to class-room
routine and lectures. Hers was a temperament admirably suited to
the study she had chosen--self-reliant, cool, and robust.
But it was not easy for her to go.
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