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138 "that Miss Josephine Morse is the winner of the two hundred dollars offered by Mrs. Kerrick, the title of her play being 'The Spring Road.

It came like a thunderbolt! Jess could only gasp and stare up at him until his smiling, rosy face, and the big spectacles, were blurred in a mist that seemed to rise before her like a curtain.

Bobby Hargrew started the cheering; but it was Laura who reached Jess first and hugged her tight.

"I'm just as disappointed as I can be!" she cried. "I actually thought my play was going to be best. But as it wasn't Why, Jess, I'm almost as happy over your winning it as you can be yourself!"