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"Girls!" exclaimed Jessica, who all this time had been looking the doll over carefully, "where have you seen this material before?" She pointed at the fancy red waistcoat the doll was wearing. "It has a familiar look," answered Nora. "It looks to me very much like a red velveteen suit I saw somewhere once upon a time," observed Grace. "You did see it, Grace. But it was how long ago?
So the governor and his councillor stood shoulder to shoulder at one window, debating Count Frontenac's message; and shoulder to shoulder at another stood Iberville and Jessica Leveret. And what was between these at that moment though none could have guessed it signified as much to the colonies of France and England, at strife in the New World, as the deliberations of their elders.
At recess that morning the subject of the play was for once forgotten in the excitement occasioned by the principal's recent disclosure. Groups of girls indignantly denied even the thought of such mischief. "I don't believe Miss Thompson would ever suspect us of any such thing," remarked Jessica to her friends. "Of course not, goose," replied Grace. "She knows us too well for that."
Harker, unable to sleep, had let his thoughts go back to Jessica; and in the silence of the night a picture had arisen before his eyes; a theatre in which a dark-eyed young girl was dancing, amidst a crowd of others. In his delight at having a clue he cried aloud, "Ada Lester, at the Rockingham!"
"When we go to the hospital to-morrow we'll find no doubt that our stranger is named 'Smith' or 'Brown' or anything except 'Allison." "Don't worry, dear," said Anne, slipping her hand into Jessica's. "No one will take your one chicken from you." "I don't know about that," responded Jessica gloomily. "I feel in my bones that something terrible is going to happen.
Jessica and Nora, David, Hippy and Reddy dropped in, one after the other, to inquire for Grace. "There is nothing like accidents to bring one's friends together," declared Grace, as the young people gathered around her. "I told you to look out for squalls, Grace," said David. "But you didn't weather the gale very well." "Those juniors must have been eavesdropping when you made your signal code.
She discoursed languidly about Katrina in the interval between the promise and the visit. "Well! Of course she's well," drawled Jessica. "She's the kind that wouldn't know it if she wasn't well. For the rest, she's phlegmatic, has no aspirations, and evidently no sensitiveness.
"Why, Marian Barber, what made you do it?" Then other exclamations followed in quick succession as the Phi Sigma Taus rushed over to her in a body, each carrying a jeweler's box. "You shouldn't have been so generous, Marian," said Grace. "I never dreamed of receiving this beautiful gold chain." "Just look at my bracelet!" cried Jessica. "And my lovely ring!" put in Nora.
"Suppose we write Grace a letter," suggested one of the substitutes, "as long as no one seems anxious to tell her." "Hush," exclaimed Eva Allen, holding up her finger. "Here come Nora and Jessica. I know they are going to make a lot of fuss when they hear the news. Suppose we go back to the classroom and write the letter. We can all sign our names to it, and then we'll be equally to blame."
In one corner, in exquisitely dainty embroidery, were the two initials 'J. J., and when Dave had shut the bag and looked again at the closed clasp, he discovered, finely cut on the metal, the same initials. 'J. J., mused Dave; 'that suggests any number of charming personalities Juliet, Juno, Jessica. 'Jane, or Jemima, I supplemented, taking up one of the letters.
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