Judy of York Hill   By: Ethel Hume Bennett (1881-)

by

ETHEL HUME

With Illustrations by Harold Cue

[Illustration: PILLOWS WERE SORTED OUT, AND NANCY WITH THE TINY LIGHT LED THE WAY ( page 59)]

[Illustration]

Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge

1922

Copyright, 1922, by Ethel Hume Bennett All Rights Reserved

The Riverside Press Cambridge, Massachusetts Printed in the U.S.A.

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO YOU WHO IN THE OLD SCHOOL LEARNED

"To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honour, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes; To count the life of battle good, And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That binds the brave of all the earth.

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To day and here the fight's begun Of the great fellowship you're free; Henceforth the School and you are one, And what You are, the race shall be."

HENRY NEWBOLT

CONTENTS

I. BEGINNINGS 3

II. IMPORTANT THINGS 21

III. DRESSING UP 37

IV. A SUPPER PARTY 47

V. "ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST" 54

VI. PUTTING IT THROUGH 65

VII. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS 87

VIII. CASTLES IN THE AIR 100

IX. THE ANONYMOUS LETTER 115

X. JUDITH PLAYS DETECTIVE 133

XI. FRIENDS 148

XII. EASTER HOLIDAYS 169

XIII. THE MESSENGER 186

XIV. JUDITH WINS THE TENNIS CUP 203

XV. JUNE SHOWERS 218

XVI. A TOAST TO THE SCHOOL 239

XVII. PRIZE GIVING 259

ILLUSTRATIONS

PILLOWS WERE SORTED OUT, AND NANCY WITH THE TINY LIGHT LED THE WAY Frontispiece

JUDITH WAS TUCKED UP IN A FUR ROBE IN THE CUTTER AND OFF THEY WENT 102

JUDITH HAD TO HEAR EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAD HAPPENED TO NANCY SINCE THEY PARTED 182

THEN CURIOSITY URGED HER TO OPEN THE LITTLE WHITE BOX 248

JUDY OF YORK HILL

CHAPTER I

BEGINNINGS

"YES, we're nearly in," said Uncle Tom, glancing out at the flying landscape. "There's the lake, and here comes the porter to stir up the dust."

Judith's heart beat a little more quickly. Toronto and York Hill School had been the centre of her thoughts for months past, and now she was almost there and a new life ahead of her!

"I suppose you've read your 'Tom Brown,' Judy, eh? 'Like young bears with all your troubles to come,'" quoted Uncle Tom as he left her a few minutes later with Aunt Nell who had come to the station to meet them. "Can't help having trouble, I'm afraid, but when you're going to be expelled for not having solved your geometry problem, just drown your grief in an ice cream soda in the tuck shop" and he dexterously inserted a crisp bank note into Judith's bag.

"Don't mind him, Judy, darling, he's always teasing. We'll do our shopping first of all. I've arranged for a fitting at Madame's for you."

"Mother and Daddy sent their love," said Judith a little soberly as they got into the waiting motor. "Yes, I think Mother seemed a little better and she's just sure that Florida will make her perfectly well."

Her lips quivered ever so slightly as she remembered how every hour was taking her mother farther away from her.