Betty Gordon at Boarding School; Or, The Treasure of Indian Chasm

ty station!" sai

greed w

eemed swarming with girls and boys. Evidently a train had come in from the other direction a few minutes before the Junction train, for bags and suitcases

were much in evidence, and Betty's first thought w

o the severe-looking elderly woman whom he had so bothered on the train. "G

ell "Tommy, you've got us in a peck o

?" demanded Tomm

l a minute, you'd hear,"

hardly more than a girl, was escorting the

. Mrs. Eustice was beginning to worry about you. Will yo

s a teacher instead of acting so blamed exclusive? Anyway, she pro

emory-like a camera,"

ait an

e giggling, chattering group with engaging friendliness. "I thought you were. We take this auto-sta

is way!" boomed a

Bob, giving Betty's hand a hurried squeez

e!" directed th

boys hastening to the stage marked "Salse

de, and a smaller bus which, they afterward learned, foll

y, da

age steps and nearly choked Betty

and she introduced them to the Littell girls and Libbie and Frances in the happy, tangled fashion

ar each other, was well-filled. They had started and were lurching along the rather

es she look like some one I know? Oh, I remember! She's t

ng up near the driver'

re you the girl they say brought

posite Betty. "I wanted to bring three wardrobe trunk

an that Ada studiously refused to meet her eye. Betty was too inexperienced to know that a certain type of girl never ta

s!" whispered Norma Guerin

did know of her was not pleasant, and it was part of Betty's personal

rself. "Won't he be surprised! I do hope she hasn't brought

could immediately have told you that their clothes were not new that seaso

were worrying Norma, to

one trunk between us,

ce never allowed the gi

k and mine, too. T

ghters have elaborate clothes, and the Littells have oceans of mone

hool, and as the bus turned down the road that led t

t term pupils in the busses obligingly explained was the "administration," where classes were taught. The gymnasium was also in this building. In addition were three gray stone buildings, connected with bridges, in which were the dormitories, the teachers' rooms, the dining room, the i

me doorway, and here the busses stop

ied a girl from the bus

er friends

advanced upon Ada Nansen a

ogether-they'll be a pair. Ada, my dear love!" she mimicked wickedly. "Libbi

er charges into the large foyer and announced tha

this afternoon," said Miss Anderson. "And you will

foyer, and for those who were already provided with a room-mate

ir home town, naturally gravitated together, though Betty would have chosen a less studious room-mate for the dreamy Libbie-she needed a girl who would know more accurately what she was doing. Nor

irl who's come to us from a Western army post. Her name is Constance Howard, and

rmed perceptibly. Louise was the leas

my ukulele," offere

ic box," said Bobby, with sisterly frankness.

nny building with corridors carpeted in softest green. The rooms apparently were all connecting, and the

teacher, Miss Lac

the train," whispered the irrepressible Bob