ETHEL ENTERS COLLEGE


The next morning Ethel Hollister walked up to Barnard and put in her
application for admittance. The following week upon her first examination
she failed, but she entered the class with conditions. The girl studied
hard and soon made good.

She liked the girls of her class. They were intelligent, athletic, and
agreeable.

Her former friends and companions from La Rue's declared that of
late--in fact, since she had become a Camp Fire Girl--Ethel Hollister
had developed fads. This Barnard was one. But as Ethel kept on
steadily progressing in college, and she was so very young--not yet
seventeen--people began to consider her a girl of great ability and
intelligence. Mrs. Hollister grew to be proud of hearing her praised
on every side and Archibald seemed less worried over money matters.
She was rather glad that things had changed. Perhaps it was all for
the best, and people would respect them no less.

Grandmother never wearied of hearing her grandchild tell of her visit.
"And to think," she'd say, "that Susan has had all the trouble she tells
of and has made no sign. How gladly would I have helped her. Still, had
I done so we would have had no house. Well, the Lord knows what's best.
We could only have offered her a home. I'm glad the Insane Asylum was
endowed and the boys educated before the crash came."

Nora did not visit New York in the winter. She went South with her