The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors

Nan gave to the

warriors go, and that is what we all o

ip seemed interminable, but in a few weeks they fell into the attitude of mind of all commuters and just acce

ect his French exercises. Those were sad mornings for Billy when the seat by Nan was taken before they reached Preston. He cursed his luck that Preston should not have been beyond Grantly instead of a station nearer to town. Coming home he always saw to it that no "fresh kid" got ahead of him in the choice of sea

an?uvres. She struck up a warm friendship with Lucy, and since the two younger

would ask in the lordly and nonchalant manner of big brothers, and Mag would be d

t was harder was to see how Nan dimpled under the compliments the count paid her, and how gaily she laughed at his wit, and how easily she held her own in the very interesting conversation into which they plunged. Billy, boiling and raging, could not help catchin

to fly?" the count asked. "Is it

a little bit of poetry I learned the other day

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like forest pools than ever and the trembling Billy was very much afraid the handsome nobleman was going to fall into said pools. He gritted hi

o' Dreaming." Fortunately Billy did not hear this remark, as the brake

t out, so had the hated count. He never had taken as much of a fancy to de Lestis as the

aged on in his boyish way. "He might have l

n the train. The count was rapidly becoming a warm friend of the family. Ev

's the reason," she said when questioned.

ve somebody to talk to," said Helen. "You and Mag are to

to her for fair. I know why he doesn't think much of Mag and

proper come from Holland and C

rman family that live over near Preston. He brings old Mr. Blitz newspapers all the time and

nguages," declared Helen with the dignified air that she thou

says that if his country was at war you wouldn't catch him buying farms in strange countries,

iser's side. A whole lot of them believe in a more democratic form of government than Emperor William wants. Th

men that fight," and Lucy tossed her hea

," admonis

ade flying visits to Chicago. He was interested in a land agency and was hoping to import some Hungarian and Serbian families t

our negroes. The Serbs are especially fine farmers. It is really a nation of

at Miss Ella thought she would rather have a family of Hungarians, since that was the count's nationali

turn to "

en the little home. "I am not a dead warrior when the

oried in the fact that she was able to turn her education to some account; and while the remuneration of

pt for a small sum in bank left over from the camp earnings. It would be possible to man

ess good humor, and a systematic saving of time, together with a keen sense of fun to get Douglas over each day. She found the school in a state of insurrection, due to having pr

he was determined to make good and she asked their help; that she was willing to give them all she had in the way of knowledge and strength but that they must meet he

manage in school. Never having been under the least restraint before in all of his seven years, it was hard on him to have to sit still and pretend to study, and he made it harder

rying to teach him. He was rather young for school, she almost fooled herself into believing; but there was

ect me, and if I can't make my own little brother ob

o with any other pupil, not her br

mother or father, of

d no doubt pet Bobby. I'll write a note to Dr. Wright and his di

e following letter

a., R. F.

ber 1

Dr. W

way that his teacher is afraid he will have to be expelled. She has done everything in her power to m

since

as Ca

via Grantly, as the Carters had no telephone, and Miss Ella and Miss Louise could not agree just what his name was or when he