Brenda, Her School and Her Club

heard some one behind calling her name. It was Miss Cra

s Crawdon wishes

ir teacher had

ly misunderstood what I said. It will not do at all for you to go

ed Brenda. Nora, too, sh

t you could find his home. In the second place you might have to go into some dirty st

collay Square? We could get a

on hesitat

tion myself. We will walk together, and I will see you sa

over his shoulder at the girls, with one little hand doubled

e boy?" Manuel smiled knowingly. "There," he said, waving his hand inde

ody lives there; there are

dies, there,"

p window, and pounded the glass, somewhat to the d

shop," said Mrs. Brown. "We m

sket over. The little boy had found his tongue, and chattering like a magpie, he pointed toward the ladies. The woman, rising from the step on which she had been sitting, came toward the little group. In broken English she explained

e been worrie

philosophically; "me

bravery. The mother probably only half comprehending the young girl's rapid flow of words, smiled and showed her white

. Brown will take down Manuel's address. Then, if your

is mother. They gave Mrs. Brown many injunctions to make no mistake about h

ing presented the as

in Boston, did you?" said Nora, "I me

d Brenda. "Wasn't that woman picture

egan to feel a little doubtful as t

said Brenda, as she bade good-bye

esn't either,"

nd Brenda shook her hea

s. "Good-bye, now. I'm coming to see Julia th

," said the maid as Brenda started

eplied Brenda. "You don't thi

he library, "it's half-past three.

e down in a minute," she called out, as she continued her way upstairs. When she descended to the library, she

reading to me,"

ery pleasant hou

Brenda's mother. "You know that it is a

tossed

Belle to come

oming, I think that Thomas gave me some mes

on Brenda's face that there might be a storm if for the

here you have been. I have an ide

by these words of Julia's, she gave her mother an animated account of

a story, and the events of the morning lost nothing by her telling. But M

es, Manuel's mother may not care to have strangers visit her.

pushed aside and Belle and Edith came into the room. Julia rose to shake hand

ne of 'the Four.' Brenda's to

iked her better than Belle, although on the two occasions o

ady to give her a serenade, or something like that when

do so very much. Those horses were not running away, and

ortuguese-and Nora was very brave. It's just like you, Belle, to think tha

, and Julia was still sufficiently a stranger to act as a check on the sharp repl

t is to have things go on in the same way day after day. Last week there was a fire alarm about two blocks away, and just think, t

Barlow, as she left the roo

ready, Julia, the c

words with Edith, excused herself with the explanation that her aunt

h an air of relief, as Julia left. "There

other three in Bren

, as she threw herself down on the chintz-covered sofa.

r cousin a stran

erribly serious, and that she won't tak

to ask her to jo

ides five is a horrid number. You never can

an't leave

s to do in the afternoon-like to-day. We need

he window, and though she usually would have agreed with Brenda, they had lately had so m

were not shared by the other three girls, d

," she exclaimed, "and decide wha

mere idle talk, they would have some object. They would all do fancy work, and perhaps have a sale in the spring for some charity. Each of the girls had already spent all he

w had said when Brenda consulted her on the subject. "It would be better to wait u

at they would persevere in their work, and have a sale. Brenda, herself, was too apt to begin with enthusiasm some undertaking whi

ed to be, and I'm perfectly in earnest

certainly will not interfere, only you must give

rit of different institutions. Edith thought that a hospital was the noblest object of charity, although the others objected that the City or the State usually looked after hospitals. Nora hoped their mon

Brenda?" asked Belle, somewhat deris

for anything in particular." Then, as

what, girls,-let

what, girls,-let u