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`` Different , '' added Bob . `` But since you 're coming , we can argue about it to-night , '' concluded Christy , decidedly . `` What I want now is your twenty cents . '' It was half past three when Eleanor started over to the main building to deposit her theme in one of the tin boxes which Miss Raymond and her assistants opened at specified hours on specified days , -- not , as Mary Brooks explained , because they wanted what was in the boxes , but because they wished to discover what was not in them , in order that they might make life a burden for those whose themes were late . Just ahead of Eleanor a little freshman walked up to the box and slipped in a stamped envelope . `` Pardon me , but this is n't a mail-box , '' explained Eleanor . `` Why , it says ` Collections made at 6 P.M. Tuesdays and Thursdays , ' '' gasped the little freshman .