Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays; Or, Rescuing the Runaways

had that term for bobsledding. School closed the next day and those pupils who lived farthes

the Hall. Tillbury was a night's ride from Lakeview Hall, and

o to visit in the Masons' home during a part of this vacation, and the two frien

hard it was snowing when Charley, with his 'bus on runners, drove them to the station, they wis

e a humdinger of a stor

ybe get snowed

" cried the th

ot!" proc

ld be fun, Nan,

ed-haired girl, Laura Polk, who would be

the South to spend Christmas, where there was no ice or snow, and where the darkeys

t for you girls who are going to Chicago. But our train from

rrid possibility. I'm going right now to buy ou

n adamantine sandwiches

ems in algebra?

ld carry a shoe-box lunch again. 'Member that one you two gir

r forget it?

away to the lunch counter and spent most of her remaining pocket money on greasy pies, decrepit san

ilot showing how it had ploughed through the drifts. The girls were separated at once, for Nan's

be picked up by the other train at the Junction. So they bade their friends good-bye at once and, after a

became stalled for a while. But a huge snow-plow came to the re

Nan begged hard for more time and Bess treated him to a generous lunch from the supply she had b

rifts piling up along the right of way, wherever the lamps revealed them; country stations darkened and almost buried under the white mantle;

ain halted again for the drifts to be shoveled out

"That's sure. I don't know just how many miles it is-and I neve

rench restaurant more easily," chuckled Bes

train that I'm not thinking of them," ad

tive clogged, the flues filled with snow, the wet fuel all but extinguished the fire. Before the engineer could back the heavy

r apart. The train was about midway between stations, the distance from one to the other being some twenty miles. The weight of the snow

r passengers in the Pullman, Nan and Bess were asleep. While the passengers slept the snow continued to s

om the first. Fuel supply had been renewed at the Junction, as well as water; but the coa

fore the road could be opened from either end of the division. Food and fuel wou

ways and means. Meanwhile the snow continued to fall and the passenge