A Dear Little Girl at School

ped up and down and fairly h

t Nettie interrupted her w

Edna was st

won it. The money came

t had been to Nettie. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" she cried, and she, too, began to dance up and do

ouldn't possi

d showed her the precious letter with the enclosed or

ith satisfaction. "It is really owing

telling me in the first place. I

hing. Don't you know that it was all on you

so much it doesn't seem fai

of the refresh

ughed. "I

cided what y

alk it over with mother. You said something about ginge

ould cost very much. None of the girls have ha

go see what

was going on. "Mother," began Nettie, "you know I am to have the club meeting after a while, and it is to be at the general club-room at Miss Agnes Evans's house

you told me, dear

e puzzle prize, so that I could pay for my r

sts less than any o

ch would it cost to make eno

pans so they would be more crusty. I don't believe it would cost

uld I have? We can't hav

ren watched her. Presently she said: "I have a bottle of raspberry shrub that your Aunt Henrietta gave me and which we have

Nettie looked at E

, "and nobody has had anything like that. We have had

na were at the other end of a telephone wire. "Now for number three. I s

er girls had?" Mrs

andy, and some have had ice cream and cake and candy; some have had-let me see-c

e David sent us last week?

would it be nice to have just

ng and stirring it? Why not do some of it that way? It would be a litt

dna?" Nettie again ap

ngs that aren't a bit like anyone else has had and they

ing to hear. "But I haven't spent but twen

sorry for that?"

to do what I choose with, even

t, and if I am able to help you out a

it. I shall make two secrets of it and one I shal

said Edna getting

the next few minutes. "I shall get something for mother," Nettie explaine

. "Now I must go back and tell Ben, for he will want t

pend part of my money on a birthday gift for Edna. It was all her doings about the puzzle

ar, and I think that

secrets and in time

one which was thoroughly enjoyed. The refreshments received even more praise than Edna had predicted, for not a crumb of gingerbread,

aper, she heard him say to his wife. "Humph. That was a bad failure of Green and Adams to-day. Adams

s that?" aske

uare, you know, in that large whi

rs. "Is it Clara Adams

n the square?" a

use with lions in front

ourse, it i

appened to

great deal of

poor

"He can't keep up that way of living very long. His wife is as extra

unhappy. Would she leave school, and-There were so many wonderings that she asked her mother a great many

bile, and those girls who had clung to her on account of the powers of riches now openly deserted, declared that she had left their neighborhood and in consequence could no longer belong to their club. Then in a little while it was announced that the club had disbanded, and the remaining members came in a body and begged that they might be taken into the G. R.'s. There was much discussion. Some were for,

"She's kept us out of a lot of fun and we were geese to keep in with her so long. I'm sorry

her. So had she seen them with Clara not so very long before. She thought she would go over and say something to her old enemy, but what to say-She had no good excuse. Then she remembered an exceedingly pretty paper-doll which

opened her book and held out the doll for Clara to see. It was given rather a grudging glance, but it was rea

s, and she could not but be a little interested. Anything which was painted or drawn was of more

ghty pretty paper-dolls," Edna went

ciously, "but I could never make any as pretty as this. I c

ecious possession, but-She hesitated only a moment and then she said: "W

and vanity had received a blow when the Neighborhood Club was broken up and she cast forth, and she took the offer in the spirit

should be no chance for her to change her mind. Clara slipped the doll in

hum. "Edna Conway," she cried, "did

" return

ink after all she has done that you would wa

oing to be nice to her if ever I h

can tell you that all the girl

all the time, but I don't see why

speak, but I shouldn't

e had her own ideas of

l?" asked Dorothy, "I wa

me," returned Edna

. Is it in your desk? Go on and get it,

k. I haven't it," r

dna Conway, you can't have given it to Clara Ada

to her; I only lent it

friend and hugged her. "You are an angel," she said. "I couldn't have done such a thing to save

e don't,"

er to where the two had been standing. "What di

want to pay a fi

g we know you will be proposing that we ask Clara Adams into our c

event Edna from making plans of her own concerning Clara. She smiled at her as she took her seat in clas