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 wich Bulletin" to Mrs. Winthrop, who couldn't read, but would never confess it, though everybody knew it. She took fashion magazines to the coquettish Miss Hawley, who had been an acknowledged beauty in her day and had broken many a heart which had long since turned to dust. Yes, and before the month of August was over she was calling all the old men in the village "Uncle," and whenever any of the seven children happened to see her, you might have thought it was another Pied Piper of Hamelin just after the burgomaster's refusal to pay those thousand guilders.

"There!" thought Charlotte to herself one night, after making an entry in her little purple book. "I know how to make people like me, and now I'm ready for the Second Sum." An expression that was almost fear stole over her, and in slow, subdued tones she continued: "How can I make myself famous?"

She tried to figure out ways and means