Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School / Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities

for her and asked the reason for her absence of the day before. On finding that Eleanor had no plausible excuse, but had absented herself merely because she felt like it, Miss Thompson thereupon d

yet thoroughly acquainted with the rules of this school, but do not let it occur again.

o her desk and resumed the writing she

addressed in that tone, but the words would not come. Something in the elder woman's quiet, resolute face as she sat writing checked the wilful girl, and though she felt deeply incensed at

before closing time had managed to incur the d

o-day?" whispere

es, the geometry teacher, had jus

as very strict, and she knew that to be caught whispering

er tactics. If Eleanor could only understand that she must respect the authority of her various teachers during recitation hours and cheerfully comply with their requests, then all might be well. Since Miss Leece had left the High School at the close of Grace's freshman year, she could not conscientiously say that she disliked any of her teachers. They had been both kind an

l. She had just reached there when Eleanor walked in, looking extremely sulky. She jerked her

here goes," and she hurried after Eleanor, over

nor?" she asked. "Didn't

the teachers, and I hate Miss Thompson most of all. Every one of those teachers are com

deserve them. She is one of the finest women I have ever known, and she takes a warm int

" said Eleanor angrily. "When I told her that I stayed at home because I felt inclined to do so, she almost had a spasm, and gave me ano

sent her excuse at the office as soon as she returns; then her name is taken off the absent list. If she is absent the second day, then a messenger is sent to he

sly, "and I despise her. I'll find some way to get ev

or," answered Grace gently, "if you take t

full of life and spirit, but really you are all goody-goodies, who allow those teachers to lead you around by the nose. I had intended to ask Aunt Margaret to take me out of this ridiculous school, for s

I leave you that you are taking the wrong view of things, and you'll find it out sooner or later. I am sorry that yo

eeling more hurt over Eleanor's

d a familiar call, and, glancing up the street,

a, "so we kept away, for we thought after to-day's

ad child in English this morning, followed it up in geometry; and Anne says that in r

aid Grace, half laughing, although there was a hurt look on her face. "She says we are al

the next time I see her," blustered Nor

g, than before," said Anne quietly. "Don't you remembe

an't bear to have any one say horr

ated us as though we were her dearest friends, while to-day

the artistic temperamen

emperament," said Nora, "but in my opinion it's