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 "Well, graduate if you are bound to!" "But I can't, unless I have things enough like the others, that I don't look as I did that first day." "Well, please remember I didn't get you into this, and I can't get you out. You are set on having your own way. Go on, and have it, and see how you like it!" Elnora went upstairs and did not come down again that night, which her mother called pouting. "I've thought all night," said the girl at breakfast, "and I can't see any way but to borrow the money of Uncle Wesley and pay it back from some that the Bird Woman will owe me when I get one more specimen. But that means that I can't go to—that I will have to teach this winter, if I can get a city grade or a country school." "Just you dare go dinging after Wesley Sinton for money," cried Mrs. Comstock. "You won't do any such a thing!" "I can't see any other way. I've got to have the money!" "Quit, I tell you!" "I can't quit!—I've gone too far!" "Well, then, let me get your clothes, and you can pay me back." "But you said you had no money!" "Maybe I can borrow some at the bank. Then you can return it when the Bird Woman pays you." "All right," said Elnora. "I don't have to have expensive things. Just some kind of a pretty cheap white dress for the sermon, and a white one a little better than