But one day, sitting at her desk with
only a few unimportant odds and ends of work before her, her thoughts
drifted away, and soon formed themselves into words and sentences which
seemed clamoring for definite expression. She seized her pen and some
blank paper, setting them down as rapidly as possible, and before she
quite realized what she was about had written several pages. Finally,
stopping to glance over her work, she felt encouraged to continue it,
which she did till her working-hours were over. That night more thoughts
came to her, and the next day she completed the article. Reading it
over, and correcting it carefully, she decided to copy it; and, while
the impulse was upon her, even had the audacity to enclose it in an
envelope and send it to a certain magazine having scientific tendencies,
which came to the museum regularly.
It was an article describing some oolitic formations she had been much
interested in when at the old home; and she told of her ramblings,
speculations, and discoveries, in a modest, face-to-face way which gave
them a certain interest in addition to their scientific value.
Several days passed, and she had given up her fledgeling for lost, when
one morning she saw amid the mail upon the professor's desk an envelope
addressed to herself, and opening it found with astonishment that it was
an acceptance of her sketch, enclosing a check for what seemed to her a
large amount.
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