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Scarcely had the girls from Lenox gone far enough to be out of hearing than she started in on helpless little Sally. "What are you two thinking of?" she demanded angrily. "Do you think you can kick out and leave me without warning? Don't you know how short I am " "Miss Vincez," interrupted Sally, "I don't see what possible claim you have on either of us.
Then, like a flash of that robust country vitality, the patient rallied and all danger was pronounced past. One particular, however, caused Jane keen annoyance. All messages to Shirley's folks had been passed out through Dolorez Vincez, who claimed to be a personal friend of the family.
Jane acted like a senior now, but the emergency was sufficiently exacting to demand such forceful means. Where was Judith Stearns and what was the meaning of Dolorez Vincez' sinister statement, about running down poor messenger boys? Also who could have been sobbing in the room back of the parlors? "Look!" exclaimed Jane as they left the tanbark walk. "Who is that running from the back driveway?"
But Dol's Beauty Parlor outrage was too delectable to forego even for a final ball game, "The place, I mean. It's fitted up " "Were you in?" gasped Winifred Ayres. "No, of course I was not in," disdained Dozia. "No one who ever knew the trickery of Dolorez Vincez would enter that place." "Why?" asked the innocent Nettie Brocton. "Would she really do something dreadful "
It seemed like that; everything attractive just now was blended into the college opportunities, and Sally was about to turn her back on them, for what? The housemaid tapped at her door and announced a caller. Hurriedly gathering up trifles to put the room in a semblance of order, she hurried down to the reception room, there to confront Dolorez Vincez!
"Dol Vincez, you just stop that nonsense," flared Dozia Dalton, stepping up to the fancy little door defiantly. "We saw Judith Stearns run in here after Shirley Duncan, and you know very well that old officer Sandy came in after her. Now where is Judith?" "Isn't it lovely to have you all here? And begging me for something?"
She was proud and she was fiery, and someone had been trying to discredit her father's scholarship. Of course that "someone" was Dolorez Vincez, the expelled junior of the previous year. Every clue pointed its accusing finger at Dol Vin. She it was who brought those two freshmen, Shirley and Sarah, together at her beauty shop.
"Judy! Judy!" she cried. "Why didn't we try to save her from those reckless strangers? Why didn't we beg her to give up the company of Dolorez Vincez?" "But we did, Janie. We tried every possible way," consoled Judith. "This accident could happen to anyone to a skilled rider as well as to a beginner. Besides she will be all right. See how quickly she became fully conscious!"
"Except Dolorez Vincez, she was still more curious," recalled Maud, referring to the South American character in Jane Allen: Center, who still kept within the shadow of Wellington by now running that protested beauty shop just outside the college gates. "But Dol is something of a foreigner, while Shirley seems to be all American," replied Jane. "Just fancy Americanizing an American born and bred!
This was evidently the "something" hinted at in the soph's outline of the "henning" party. Dolorez Vincez was too clever to show embarrassment, and Shirley Duncan was too cruel to hide it. She plainly was urging the driver on. "That's your college, darter, ain't it?" the girls could hear the elderly woman ask Shirley, but they did not hear the latter's answer.
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