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You see, in the state where Hedgeville is, Farmer Weeks is her legal guardian, and he could make her work for him until she was twenty-one. He's an old miser, and as mean as he can be. But once she is out of that state, he can't touch her, and Mr. Jamieson has had Miss Eleanor appointed her guardian, and mine too, for that state. The state where Miss Eleanor and all of us live, I mean."
They haven't been able to fool her very much since she left Hedgeville, you know." "Oh, I didn't mean Bessie!" cried Dolly, throwing her arms around Bessie's neck affectionately. "You know I didn't, don't you, dear? And I'm only joking about half the time anyhow, when I say things like that."
And so, with occasional help from Bessie herself, when Dolly forgot something, or when Bessie's ideas disagreed with hers, Dolly poured the story of the adventures of Bessie and Zara since their flight from Hedgeville into Marcia's ears. "Why, I never heard of such a thing!" Marcia exclaimed, when the story was told. "So that fire last night wasn't an accident at all?"
Not I! If you hadn't taken care of those misguided girls after they ran away from Hedgeville, none of this would have come about." "I suppose you think you have some excuse for acting in this fashion?" "I certainly have, Miss Mercer. The very best. After all, why shouldn't I tell you! It's too late for you to do me any harm now I have won the game." "But there will be a return match.
You needn't be afraid of Jake Hoover any more, I think, especially after what he did at General Seeley's." "Killing that poor pheasant? Wasn't that a mean thing for him to do? They used to say he did some poaching, sometimes, around Hedgeville, but then about everyone did there, I guess. But I didn't think he'd ever try to catch such beautiful birds as the ones General Seeley had."
"In the first place, Miss Mercer here took a party of her Camp Fire Girls, these same ones that you can see there so busy about getting breakfast, over the state line, and they went to a camp on a lake a little way from a village called Hedgeville." "I know the place," nodded Trenwith. "Never been there, but I know where it is." "Well, one morning they discovered these two Bessie and Zara.
"You could go back in better dresses than any of those Hedgeville girls ever even saw, Bessie. And just think of how that horrid Jake Hoover would feel then." "Oh, well, there's no use thinking about it, Dolly. It won't ever happen. So I shan't be disappointed, anyhow." "Well, it might happen and I think it's simply great to dream about things that might happen to you.
And I think he'll get over it, anyhow." "There you go, Bessie! He's made all this trouble for you, and you're standing up for him already." "No, I'm not. But what trouble has he made for me, Zara? I'm going to be happier than I ever was back there in Hedgeville and if it hadn't been for him I'd still be there, and I'd be chopping wood or something right now."
There was a mystery about them, and the people in Hedgeville just made up their minds that something was wrong." "I feel awfully sorry for Zara, Bessie. It must be dreadful for her to know that her father is in prison, and that they are saying that he was making bad money. You don't think he did, do you?" "I certainly do not!
"I used to think, sometimes, when I was on Paw Hoover's farm in Hedgeville, that if only I could go to sleep some night without knowing just what was going to happen the next day I'd be happy. It was always the same, too just the same things to do, and the same places to see " "I should think Jake Hoover would have kept you guessing what he was going to do next," said Dolly, spitefully.
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