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It was through the Patterson-Pratt forgery case that I first made the acquaintance of Terry Patten, and at the time I should have been more than willing to forego the pleasure. Our firm rarely dealt with criminal cases, but the Patterson family were long standing clients, and they naturally turned to us when the trouble came. Ordinarily, so important a matter would have been put in the hands of one of the older men, but it happened that I was the one who had drawn up the will for Patterson Senior the night before his suicide, therefore the brunt of the work devolved upon me. The most unpleasant part of the whole affair was the notoriety. Could we have kept it from the papers, it would not have been so bad, but that was a physical impossibility; Terry Patten was on our track, and within a week he had brought down upon us every newspaper in New York.
"Paper-weights," observed Patty, sucking an injured thumb, "were evidently not made for driving in tacks. I wish I had a hammer." This remark called forth no response, and Patty peered down from the top of the step-ladder at her roommate, who was sitting on the floor dragging sofa-pillows and curtains from a dry-goods box. "Priscilla," she begged, "you aren't doing anything useful. Go down and ask Peters for a hammer." Priscilla rose reluctantly. "I dare say fifty girls have already been after a hammer." "Oh, he has a private one in his back pocket. Borrow that. And, Pris," -- Patty called after her over the transom, -- "just tell him to send up a man to take that closet door off its hinges."
Patty and her two roommates from last year are back in school. And they're upset! School administration is trying to break up their dream team! "It's a shame!" says Priscilla. "It's an outrage!" says Conny. "It's an insult!" says Patty. "To separate us now after we've been together three years --" "And it isn't as though we were "awfully" bad last year. Lots of girls had more demerits." "Only our badness was sort of conspicuous," Patty admitted. "But we were "very" good the last three weeks," reminded Conny. Don't worry, they'll work around it. And raise more heck this year than ever before. . . ! Don't miss this wonderful tale from Jean Webster, grandniece of Mark Twain.
Jean Webster (1876-1916). She was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. This edition is illustrated with photographs from the 1931 film version starring Janet Gaynor.
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