If I'm fired from college I'll be disgraced for
life. All my prospects will be blighted; my life will be ruined, and my
mother's heart broken."
She gave a little hysterical sob:--
"For your poor mother's sake, go!"
"Oh, thank you with all my heart. My mother would too if she could know.
I don't deserve to be treated so well. I shall always think of you as my
merciful benefactress. I can never forgive myself for causing you pain.
Oh, thank you," and Buckley the proud sophomore groveled out of the
room.
Next morning he received a letter, which read as follows:
"Just as a tall woman looks short in a man's make-up, so does a
short man look tall in a woman's make-up, and you should know that
blondes are hard to recognize in brunette wigs. You ought to know
that a real girl wouldn't have behaved quite that way. You see you
still have a number of things to learn, even though you are a soph.
Hoping that you will learn to forgive yourself, I am,
"Your merciful benefactress,
"H.
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