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Mother will be so pleased . '' Then the vision of coming woe in exile from beloved calculations descended upon her , and she hugged the paper figures so convulsively that the sharpest , most beautiful angle of the biggest polyhedron cracked clear across from edge to edge . They were perfectly splendid clean edges , edges that even I could see had been formed by the carefully loving hands of a mathematical prodigy . After that day came a pause in the drama -LRB- Adele declared that it was really a tragedy caused by one life trying to bend another to its will -RRB- until the day when the new issue of the Monthly arrived in the noon mail . As Robbie Belle was still in the infirmary of course , the rest of the board took hold of her share of the work . We divided the list of subscribers between us , and started out to distribute the magazines at the different rooms in the various dormitories . -LSB- Illustration : SHE WAVED AN OPEN LETTER IN HER HAND -RSB- Part of my route happened to include the neighborhood of the sanctum .