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"I'd have to know just where Hedgeville is to answer that, Miss Mercer. And I've never been there nor even traveled through it, so far as I can remember. I'll look it up on my road map, though, if you like " "Oh, no, please don't bother to do that. It's not of the slightest importance." "Then we shall have to put off Arkville to another day, you think, Miss Mercer?" "I'm afraid so, really.
"You know, that trip in the automobile with Mr. Holmes the other day wasn't very nice for me, Dolly. If they had caught me, as Mr. Holmes had planned to do, I'd have been taken back to Hedgeville, and bound over to Farmer Weeks and he's a miser, who hates me, and would have been as mean to me as he could possibly be. That's how we met Will Burns, you know because you insisted on going with Mr.
He had more money than anyone in Hedgeville or anywhere near it, and yet he was the stingiest, closest fisted old man in town." "There you are!" "Still I think Mr. Holmes must be a whole lot richer than Farmer Weeks, or than all the other people in Hedgeville put together. And it doesn't seem as if there was any money he could make out of Zara or me that would tempt him to do what he's done."
Now that she was actually out in the heart of it, Bessie found that the country was not as much like that around Hedgeville as it had seemed to be from the train windows. The fields were better kept; there were no unpainted, dilapidated looking houses, such as those of Farmer Weeks and some of the other neighbors of the Hoovers in Hedgeville whom she remembered so well.
You see, it would be very wrong for us to help girls to run away from home. But neither you nor Zara have done that, if your story is right. And I think it is our duty to help you both, just as it is our pleasure." Bessie wasn't afraid of what Wanaka would find out in Hedgeville. Wanaka wouldn't take Jake Hoover's word against hers, that much was sure.
When people do right, and still aren't happy for a while, it's always made up to them some way. And usually when they do wrong they have to pay for it, some way or another. That's one of the things we learn in the Camp Fire." "Here comes Wanaka now," said one of the other girls. "There's someone with her." Bessie looked frightened. "I don't want anyone from Hedgeville to see me," she said.
"What can he want here?" Startled and frightened by Bessie's cry, Eleanor jumped up and followed her to the window. "Well," said Eleanor, "I never saw him before, but I can't say I'm sorry for that. He looks mean enough to do all the things you've told us about him, Bessie." "Who is this Hoover? One of the people Bessie lived with, in Hedgeville?" asked Jamieson.
She thought, and meant to keep on thinking, that they had been unable to help themselves, and that some time, when good fortune came to them again, she would see them and that they would make up to her in love for all the empty, unhappy years in Hedgeville. "Yes, I'm like you, Dolly," she answered, finally. "I don't know what's become of my parents. I wish I did."
It's because they say he's been making bad money at that little house where you lived in Hedgeville." "He didn't!" said Zara. "I know he didn't!" "Well, the district attorney he's the one who has to be against your father, you know says that everyone in Hedgeville seems to think he did.
"But, Miss Eleanor, do you remember when you asked him about Hedgeville, he said he'd never been there?" "Yes, and I thought, as soon as I asked him, that he would probably have to tell me just that. Hedgeville's out of the way. You never saw automobile parties on trips going through, did you?" "No, we didn't.
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