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She felt so bad about it that she could not bring herself to join the matinée party that had been arranged by Grace for that afternoon. Some of the girls were going to have a box at a musical comedy, with Miss Hagford as chaperon. Nan did not plead a headache; indeed, she was not given to white lies.
Mason had not chaperoned the party of girls and boys to the motion picture show; but Miss Hagford, the English governess, was with them. Including the young hosts and Nan and Bess, there was almost a score in the party, and they made quite a bustling crowd in the lobby as they came out, adjusting their outer garments against the night air.
There were lights and music and flowers all about the big reception rooms, and a number of ladies and gentlemen were present besides the committee that had brought the medal for Nan. This was no time to retail such gossip as Linda Riggs had brought to her ears, and Miss Hagford, the governess, did not take her employer into her confidence at that time.
"Oh, hush, Linda!" murmured Pearl Graves, very much ashamed of her cousin. "Walter! Grace! What does this mean?" demanded the governess, hurrying forward. "Don't make a scene here, I beg. Have no quarreling." But Walter was too greatly enraged to be easily amenable to the mild lady's advice. "What do you think of this, Miss Hagford?" he cried excitedly.
"Nan Sherwood has been at our house since the first day she and Bess arrived in Chicago; yet Linda Riggs says she saw Nan taking something in a store here." "Hush, Walter, hush!" begged Miss Hagford. "People will hear you." "Well, people heard her!" declared the angry youth. "We know Linda Riggs for what she is," Bess put in. "But these other boys and girls don't.
Mason, however, to make some inquiries of Miss Hagford, and later of Grace and Bess. The young folk danced for an hour to the music of a big disc machine. The committee of presentation had bidden Nan good-bye, and thanked Mrs. Mason for her hospitality. The party was breaking up. Mrs. Mason called the young people together when the wraps of those who were leaving were already on.
"And Linda Riggs tried to make it worse for you, did she?" put in the indignant Walter. "Hush, Walter!" commanded Miss Hagford. "We must have no more of this here. It is disgraceful. We will go directly home and your mother must know all the particulars. I don't know what she will say I really do not," the troubled governess added. "Oh, you can all go," snarled Linda.
"You're welcome to the company of that Nan Sherwood. Pearl and I can find our way to her house. We'll leave you right now." "Pearl is not going home, Linda," said her cousin. "You're not going to spoil all my fun for your own pleasure, I can tell you!" "Stop, my dear," Miss Hagford said sternly. "Don't wrangle any more. Come! March! Walter, lead the way with your sister. Let us delay no longer."
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