Cordelia, certainly, was beatifically happy. And when Genevieve saw her amazed, but joyously happy face, she wondered why she should suddenly want to cry--for, surely, she had never felt happier in her life. Graduation day, for the Happy Hexagons, was not, after all, quite the last meeting together; for Mrs. Kennedy gave Genevieve a porch party the night before she was to start back to Texas with Mr. Hartley. A very merry crowd of boys and girls it was that sang college songs and told stories that night on the Kennedys' roomy, electric-lighted veranda. "It seems just as if I couldn't have you go away," sighed Cordelia, at last, to Genevieve. "But I'm coming back next year." "Mercy! We couldn't stand it if you weren't," cried Tilly. "And just think--last year we all went back with you," murmured Elsie. "I wish you were going this year," declared Genevieve. "I guess you aren't the only one that wishes that," cut in several longing voices. "Well, we'll take you all now--if you'll go," retorted Genevieve, merrily. "_All_--did you say?" challenged Harold Day. "Yes, all," nodded Genevieve, emphatically. "We'd be glad to have you, every one of you." "Well, I begin to think you would--now that I've seen Texas," sighed Tilly. "But I suppose we shall have to content ourselves till you come back this time." "And this wonderful little rhyming dictionary, as Miss Tilly calls her--does she come back with you?" asked O. B. J. Holmes. "Maybe. She comes next fall, anyway, before school begins," smiled Genevieve. "Well, what I want to know is, if you are going to do any more Texas missionary work," suggested Charlie Brown. "Pooh! She doesn't do that there--she does that here," cut in Tilly. "There isn't any more to do, anyway," declared the exact Cordelia, happily. "She's got everything fixed even down to Elsie's--" She stopped just in time, but already Genevieve had interposed hurriedly: "Oh, but it wasn't I that did anything. It was Cordelia. She found them to begin with, you know--Reddy, and Hermit Joe's son." Mrs. Kennedy and Miss Jane, together with Nancy appeared just then with great plates of ice cream and delicious cake; and after that, all too soon, came the time for good-nights. The good-nights were not quite finished, however, until at the foot of the walk, five members of the Hexagon Club turned, and all together gave their Texas yell with a lusty "Genevieve" at the end that brought the tears to the real Genevieve's eyes. "Texas, Texas, Tex--Tex--Texas! Texas, Texas, Rah! Rah! Rah! GENEVIEVE!" "Mercy! What will the neighbors say--at this time of night!" protested Miss Jane Chick, feebly; but her eyes, too, were moist. THE END. BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE THE LITTLE COLONEL BOOKS (Trade Mark) _By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON_ _Each 1 vol., large 12mo, cloth, illustrated, per vol._ $1.50 THE LITTLE COLONEL STORIES (Trade Mark)