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

ed Grace Harlowe to Nora O'Malley as the latter entered the locker-room at t

a know it?"

I rushed down here the minute the last bell rang, because I wante

meeting?" asked Nora,

"Of what use is it to hold a meeting, if

, "you keep your secre

heard that's ne

with a grin of delight. "I am

ad come into the locker-room, and had been promptly hailed by Grace. Marian Barber, Miriam Nesbi

said Grace. "I really don't know how to app

said Nora decidedly. "She

know?" ask

she won't come, because she is going to have company at 'Heartsease.' Now I've t

onger. Jessica, will you ask your father if he w

y," repli

all about," cried Nora g

ace, "but, like yourself, I de

sion of the Bright's big, comfortable sitting room an

t and secretary for this worthy organization. I move therefore that we choose Miriam Nesbit for

pause, then a chorus

rary,

no" was fr

Grace, "but your 'no' doesn't amount to a row of pins. You're elected, so come ove

s at Lake George had made her an entirely different girl from the Miriam of old. Admiration for Grace and her friends had taken the place of the old animosity. Altho

n Miriam, "and now we must have a

he respective offices, then Miriam requested Gra

Stevens. It was addressed to me on the outside envelope and Mabel has given me permission to open and read it to you. She

sked her why she did not adopt you, or at least appoint herself your guardian, and she said that under no circumstances would she do so; that she wanted a good maid of all work, not a daughter. I enclose a statement from the matron to this effect. I would have advised you before this to leave her,

folded the letter and put it back in the envel

re her father sat reading. He rose, and, tucking his daughter's arm in his,

s all this? Am I invited to be present at a suffragette's meeting

ughed Grace. "We wish to ask

ica's father, making her an elabo

said Grace, with a curtsy. "Now sit you down,

low bows, much to the amusement of the girls, with whom Jessica's father was a great favorite. Then Grace began

concluded. "Will it be possible for us to get Mabel away f

nnot hold your little friend. Miss Brant will in all probability be very angry, and attempt to brave

nds delightedly, "will you, truly? Then let'

o-morrow afternoon," said Mr. Bright. "But what do you girls inten

d Jessica, slipping her hand into her father's.

st be the right sort of girl, or you and your friends wouldn't have become interested in her. Try her, and if you like her, t

for Mr. Bright

d around Jessica's father, sounding their class yell until he broke thro

Miriam Nesbit, after the girls were once more s

brother would design a pin for us. He

of gold on a dull-green enamel background. We can get them up f

f their own, expressed themselves satisfied; while Anne determined

aid Miriam. "The ne

ll interrupted her speech and

id Jessica. "Go on with wh

to continue, the maid entered

ut it's such a quare name on the outside, I b

t was addressed to the "Phi Sigma

of our society as yet," said Jessica as she opened the end of the envelope. Then

is, girls!" she ex

ed. I have this satisfaction, however, that I would not have met with you to-night, at any rate. I am entertaining some girls in your class this evening, whom I find far more congenial than any previous acquaintances I have made in Oakdale. We are

s sinc

nor Sa

y insulted because we didn't invite her, but that she didn't intend to

he meeting?" said Jessica. "We

n I left the locker-room I went back upstairs after a book I had forgotten. I met Eleanor on the stairs and told her about the meeting, and

w, positively, that Eleanor was entertaining some guests to-night, so I didn't wait. By th

e meant, and she said that she and Rose Lynton and Daisy Culver had been invited out to Eleanor's to-night for the purpose of forming a very selec

girl in the class that I really dislike. She is frivolous and empty-headed, and Eleanor is self-willed and lawless.

our reform movement is about

won't have anything to do with

er if she needs us," said Anne thoughtfully. "Like all spoiled children, she is sure to get into mischief,