Helen Bagg, who also wrote as Jarvis Hall, was the author of: Through Mocking Bird Gap (1921) and Across the Mesa (1922). "Polly Street drove her little electric down Michigan Boulevard, with bitterness in her heart. It was a cold wet day in the early spring of 1920, and Chicago was doing her best to show her utter indifference to anyone"s opinion as to what spring weather ought to be. It was the sort of day when, if you had any ambition left after a dreary winter, you began to plot desperate things. "