Rena's Experiment by Mary Jane Holmes

Rex was in a bad way mentally and physically. The hot weather was telling upon a constitution never very strong, and every day he felt a recurrence of the pain in his head which he likened to a hornet's nest, and the trouble was intensified by thoughts of the will and what he ought to do.

"I'll speak to her about it to-day," he said to himself, when returning from the station after bidding Tom good-by. "I ought to have done so at once and found out her opinion of it, and should, if it had not been for my wretched shyness and-and-Rena."