Those eyes, those keen, girlish eyes
which had looked through the spectroscope
a hundred times, in her father's
laboratory, into the remote mystery of
that far-away upper air could not be
deceived.

By the sudden, startled heave of his
shoulders, whose defiant shrug she remembered
so well, by the quick intake
of breath, as its climbing hiss sharpened
to a whistle--almost a rude whistle in
the excitement of the feat he had just
performed--by the little stare of breathless
surprise, of quandary, in his dark eyes,
glowing like Una's, he recognized her ...
and passed her by.

Recognized her as the girl whose "pep"
he had complimented for putting another's
life before her own--and didn't want
to have anything more in life to say to her!

Well! the Heavens fell upon the Pinnacle
as Pem drew back--annihilated.

Snubbed for the first time in all her
blue-sky life--and by a boy, too!

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