The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross

een unable to worm herself into the middle of it again, and told them sw

claimed Jess Morse, with some exasp

aura. "I don't feel much like shopp

either," co

het had said was "just as friendly with strangers as a pup w

hurt badly?

Cross girl replied. "And his head was badl

you had the bandage on so nicely that the

sitated on the corner of the side street. "I

your way just as well as not, Miss Steele! We live at t

"But I can run right throu

d Cross girl looked at Mother Wit with s

d she laughed. "This is Miss Laura Belding, Miss Steele. On your other hand is Miss Hargrew--Miss Clara Ha

, are you not?" Laura asked

ur weeks. But I have worked in the Red Cross

went to Central High and had Gee Gee for on

irls," said Laura gently. "Have

apologetically, "that you are all much further advanced in your education than I am. You see, my mother is an invalid

ur mother is i

le hastily. "We have been living in a coast town. The doctors t

ill prove so

an't get out with the o

et Gee Gee get after you,

iss Steele, smiling down at the irrepressible one a

limit," dec

is nowhere near so strict as she used to be. Margi

demerits just as easy as ever. And she ha

my dear?" asked Laura, laughing. "I

niors, came directly under Miss Carrington's attention in several cla

as bothered enough, I can tell you, trying to correct a paper she had handed back to me, and she kept right on talking and

hould have taken it home

t Father Tom Hargrew asks me if I don't do anything at all in school.

what?" J

'What is a pseudonym?' she wanted to know. How silly! You know the trouble we've been having with that car Father Tom bought. 'I don't know what it

!" exclaimed Jess, as though

ear teachers," laughed Laura. "But if they are too s

hum a little by the elbow. "You know very well you enjoy naggin

suddenly. "Did you hear t

ternly, "I refuse to hear of Prof

nder!" exclaimed

earnestly. "We found that out, I am sure, whe

e!" admitt

letter. You know he is always reading on the street when he walks; never sees anybody, and goes stumbling about blindly with a book under his nose. He got into the revolvin

hile Miss Steele was quite

pathetically. "Why didn't Short and Lon

guess Short thought the old

in an elbow here. The houses were mostly small, and were out of repair. It was, indeed, the

e street," said Jess briskly. "I s

a. You know, we could not begin to use all the house," the gir

aunt?" a

ushing a little. "I--I guess I have never lived just as you girls do. We have moved around a great deal. I have got such educ

gets after us with a shar

slangy, and sometimes quite impossible. We do have fine times

and come to our Ice Carn

the Red Cross girl. "A

he girls had crossed the street and were standing at the gate. Janet Steele wheeled qui

oesn't see many people--and she enjoys young folk. W

owed Mother Wit to decide the question,

" she said. "We shall stay but

Cross girl, squeezing Laura's arm a

d by the broken boards in steps and piazza floor and the dilapidated condition of the railing. Even t

rupulously clean. Their young hostess opened the door into her

e whole room was warm and well lighted. There was a gas chandelier lighted to the full and an open grate heaped with red coals. There was a good rug, comfortable chairs, and a canopied bed set

was as well built a girl, even, as Laura Belding. The invalid had shrunken none in body or limbs

d bright glance perfectly. "Why, Janey, you may go out every evening, if you wi

in telling Mrs. Steele who they were. Later Janet related the accident on Marke

ion everything in the house. There was no mark of poverty; yet the Steeles lived in a house in a po

and Janet had gone in and closed t

anded Jess. "What do you th

ing could say

dd