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"Do you really believe she will accept your invitation, Elfreda?" asked Grace doubtfully. "I can tell you better after I have asked her," was Elfreda's flippant retort. "I have an idea that she will feel dreadfully hurt if no one asks her to go." "Hurt!" exclaimed three voices in unison. "Yes, hurt," repeated Elfreda. "The Anarchist isn't half so savage as she pretends to be.
"Why the one from Mrs. Gray, of course," returned Elfreda. "Isn't she here?" "Yes, but " "Grace! Elfreda!" called Mrs. Gray from the head of the stairs, "come up here, children." "Come on." Grace seized Elfreda's heavy suit case and started up the stairs. Elfreda followed with alacrity. "Now," laughed Grace, as she stepped into Mrs. Gray's room, "I demand an explanation."
Vera Vane, and Elfreda Carleton, each with an arm about the other's waist, hastened forward to greet them. "Oh, we're so glad you and Nancy have " "Just a moment Miss Vane, until you have been properly presented," Miss Fenler said, in a cold, precise manner. "But I've always known Dorothy " "That makes no difference," the assistant said, and she presented them in formal manner.
It was late when Grace and Elfreda were aroused by Washington talking, muttering in his sleep, then the nerves of the two girls leaped to attention as, out of the bushes on Miss Briggs' side of the camp, a twig snapped. It was accompanied by a sound that indicated the presence of a human being. "Who goes?" demanded Elfreda sharply. Bang!
"Grace and Anne wouldn't be so mean," returned Elfreda with supreme self-assurance. "How could we blast such touching faith?" laughed Anne. "There, what did I tell you?" asked Elfreda, turning triumphant eyes on Emma. "Now, leave me out if you dare." "I don't dare. I don't want to," declared Emma affably. "I was merely trying to be pleasant and helpful.
"Yes, that's it. Oakdale. Foolish name for a town, isn't it?" During this outburst Mrs. Elwood had stood silent, looking at J. Elfreda with doubtful eyes. Now she said apologetically, "I'm very sorry, Miss Nesbit, but could you that is would you mind having a roommate after all? My sister, Mrs.
Each of us knows best what you've been to us, as individuals, and we all know that there will never be any other girl quite as dear, and true, and loyal as you are to us. So we decided to give our Loyalheart a loyalty token, and here it is. Hold out your arm," commanded Elfreda. Grace held out her pretty, bare arm in obedient bewilderment. Something shining slipped over her wrist.
"I am surprised to think she did after the way she made remarks about people," commented Elfreda to Miriam, who was busily engaged in unhooking the stout girl's gown and listening in amusement to Elfreda's recital. "She has as much tact as a guinea hen. You know how tactful they are?" In the meantime Anne and Grace were discussing the night's festivity in their own room.
"She has no compunction about rushing off to work on a newspaper, day after day, and leaving me daughterless," complained Mr. Ashe lightly. Yet a shadow so slight as to be hardly noticeable crossed his face, which no one save the lynx-eyed Elfreda saw, who made mental note of it. "He doesn't want her to work," was her shrewd conclusion.
Jed started for Miss Briggs, his anger now beyond all control. "Stop where you are, Jed Thompson!" commanded Elfreda Briggs. The mountaineer halted abruptly. He was facing J. Elfreda's revolver, which was leveled at him, held in a steady hand. "Let your rifle drop to the floor," she directed sweetly. "Drop it! My hand is a little nervous to-day and this revolver might go off."
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