Chapter 25 BEAR AS ADVISER

"Weary soul and burthened sore

Labouring with thy secret load."

-Keble.

The early spring brought a new development. Thekla, who attended classes at the High School, came home with unmistakable tokens of measles, and Primrose did the same, in common with most of their contemporaries at Rockstone. Nor was there any chance that either Lily Un