THE APPLE TREE GIRL
because of her looks, after a while he's just as apt to be attracted by another girl because of her looks. Perhaps Margaret has found that out." She looked at the big house with growing sympathy. "I guess if the truth were known," she thought, "most of these beautiful heroines end that way. Everybody spoils them up to a certain point, and then the poor girls have to suffer for it. They can have their looks. I'm glad I'm smart, instead"—she continued up the street toward Mr. Briggs' livery stable—"if I am smart," she thoughtfully added.
Following this reflection she looked over to where Doctor Baldwin's old house stood, back on its maple-shaded lawn.
"I'm glad Neil's getting on so well," she thought. Her mind went back to that afternoon when she had run away from him. "I thought I was doing something smart, then," she ruefully
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