The Girls at Mount Morris

urtively at one another. Was this a s

means? I can't make beginning or middle

her life she must have been a soundless ghost. Yo

acation," said Alice Nevins. "It will be awful poky, I

and the other three. Madame Eustice wants to go at twelve tomorrow. Miss Vincent do take pity on me when you go to Paris. I've h

ing funny things and making droll misquotations, or putting the wrong

u wouldn't dare offer your old ones to Miss Boyd, would you? I have some pretty ones and thos

ives. It would be rather tough not to ha

only ones I remember at Christmas. Mrs. Barrington has sensibly forbidden the givi

xcellent scholar,"

the lower rounds," sneered some one. "They relegate these things b

oming up from the ranks in favore

way with that high head of hers. Perhaps s

un. At nine Miss Arran c

le to get about by herself, and all the rest of their lives to be such friends, to go abroad together, to visit picture galleries, points of interest and compare notes. For Mrs. Crawford had been finely educated and eve

of the girls went home. A box came for Miss Nevins and the girls thronged around at her invit

nter. Oh, that's a splendid fruit cake, and nuts and that's cand

azuli chain with a beautiful pendant and links of

myself and it seems too old for a girl; the sort of thing for a

in itself appropriate, but betrimm

be no occasion to wear it here. Not even graduation and the lawn fete,

ties and all that. Last winter in New York I went to three and oh, you should have seen the dresses! I had one of bl

ove our minds," said

d gayety, and think that I

five girls to k

anything. Oh, let's cut the cake.

and sweets were a feast. They ha

e like this where you do not go to high-up parties," said one of the girls in a group, af

nd isn't the father a politicia

d is rated quite highly in London. Then he buys curios and pictures, so he must have some taste. Think what that silly girl will

d a handsome evening dress, and the woman made it handsome and expensi

beauty u

orry for her, though she has improved a very little. Bu

he jou

ldn't want su

her room to finis

te Latin verses when you can't make decent

ain with a bang and Louie Howe threw herself on the floor

ng the girl held up, he was choking awfully, and at nine o'clock the other one died. It's all in the mo

y. "Hush! hush!" she commanded. "You'll have the whole faculty in here, and we'll be bundl

"Don't have hysterics if that is what you're aiming at or

, and think of the dreadful risk we ran

s, earning her living. We were the fools!

y died, and the other one hadn't seemed so bad, but he died at nine, and the youngest girl has the fever. Dr. Lewis sent for the undertaker right away and they put something on the

ing her tw

rlet fever, malignant sca

in every nerve. But s

ought not have let us in but just said she couldn

? I s'pose I'll ha

watch and perhaps not get in another school. You can spoil Zay Crawford's

d y

ng and studied her

up. We surely didn't get any of those. We went right out in the fresh air and I breathed in a big supply, the room had been so close. Two of mother's children had scar

wish I had

r our sakes you might summon a little courage. If you go on this way Louie you'll be-what is it they call hysterical people? Neurasthenics, I believe. I mea

d she fell to

a and you lie here on my bed while I fin

ou are in real

ccident or run over by a trolley or bitten by a mad dog, such things might ma

breath became more regular, there were two or three gentle snores. Phillipa rose presently, went cautio

ening. Aunt Kate has sent over and I am to be dismissed. We go to New York tomorrow morning. Oh, it se

ooking like that Boyd girl, and I dragged you off into danger, b

You don't take it very easily, but oh, wasn't it dreadful for the poor woman! Only I think she oughtn't have let us in

s were in the school room discussing the newspaper account. The town was clean and in excellent shape, there were no fears of an epidemic and even now Dr. Lewis was not quite sure but it's origin was meas

etter heart. The short day ended by a little gymnasium prac

ce," announced Miss Nevins, "and

t?" laughed some one. "Then sc

ather sent us to Bermuda. It was when the lil

y see this sensational account, and everything does get so exaggerated. There is not the slightest fear of an epidemic, but you will all be glad of a l

sn't real danger?" a

l's case seems to be not very serious as her fever is abating. Oh, I think we at

frightened sort of impression. The girls ke

gifts done up? Must we save our jolliness until we get home? We are all coming back in a fortnight, and

y unsentimental speeches until the old feeling seemed quite restored. Some gifts were exchanged,

s, you just come to my room and hop into bed with me, and think what a gay time you'll be having tomorrow night t

comfort," she said with an extravagant h

Zay before I go, and I'm not afraid

morning paper. The scare was pretty well over. The boys had been buried, the little

r and bewailed their hard lot, missing Miss Boyd very much. Her mother was quite poorly, which was gi

ard to Zaidee with a penciled message. The girl came flying through the hall, more b

ound with no crutches and the wheel chair set aside, and she's in such splendid spirits. Vincent will be allowed to come home as a special favor to papa, getting here early Monday morning and retu

ou know there are the lovers

going to have his three years' cruise first. Oh, were you much frightened, Phil? It was dreadful, and no one can tell where the boys took the

und her by the most solemn promises not to mention the escapade at home. It wasn't the right thing for us to do of course,

t over Zay's

worry yourself ill," Philli

many calls. Father brought home the German nurse, who measures off her time in a very

I've twenty things to do and start at nine tomorrow. Good-by and have just the most splen