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Updated: October 25, 2025
The girls of Lakeview Hall were tasting all the joys of winter sports. Between the foot of the hill, on the brow of which the professor stood, and the Isle of Hope, the strait was likewise solidly frozen. The bobsled course was down the hill and across the icy track to the shore of the island.
Rhoda Hammond possessed one faculty that raised her, head and shoulders, above most of her schoolmates who so derided her. The schoolwork was in full swing by this time, and almost every girl seemed to be doing well. "Dr. Cupp was less grim than usual. There was an early January thaw that spoiled all outdoor sport for the Lakeview Hall girls.
The little girls at Lakeview Hall found a staunch friend and champion in Nan Sherwood. It was a great grief to Mrs. Sherwood and Nan that there were no babies in the "little dwelling in amity." Nan could barely remember the brother that had come to stay with them such a little while, and then had gone away forever.
She was astride the snorting horse and her feet instinctively sought the stirrups, as Prince leaped away in the track of the grey pony. The stirrup-leathers were longer than Rhoda was used to; for most Western riders use a shorter leather than was the custom about Lakeview Hall.
No one had ever seen him overcome with liquor, neither had he ever been known to go to Lakeview, where was the nearest point at which it could be obtained. But Spectacle John said you could never tell. He might run a private still in that old place away back in the swamp, and he just looked like the kind that could carry a gallon and yet walk steady.
"I bet I know who they were entertaining." "Here comes the bus!" cried Amelia suddenly. A rush of more than half the girls gathered about the open hearth for the great main entrance door of Lakeview Hall followed the announcement. This hall was almost like a castle set upon a high cliff overlooking Lake Huron on one side and the straggling town of Freeling, and Freeling Inlet, on the other.
"Oh, won't that be nice?" acclaimed the little girls, for Nan's big doll was an institution at Lakeview Hall among more than the children in the primary department. But at the end of the meal Nan was dragged away by the older girls. They were an excited and hilarious crowd. "There's something doing!" whispered Bess in Nan's ear. "That new girl is on our corridor.
"I couldn't go to Lakeview Hall. It would cost, why! a pile!" "I don't know how much a pile is, translated into coin of the realm, honey," responded Mrs. Sherwood with her low, sweet laugh. "But the only thing we can give our dear daughter, your father and I, is an education. That you MUST have to enable you to support yourself properly when your father can do no more for you."
But the most exciting thing that had happened to Nan Sherwood was the decision on her parents' part that she should go with her chum, Bess Harley, to Lakeview Hall, a beautifully situated and popular school for girls on the shore of Lake Huron.
School closed the next day and those pupils who lived farthest away, and who went home for the holidays, started that very evening by train from Freeling. Nan and her chum, Bess Harley, were two who hurried away from the Hall. Tillbury was a night's ride from Lakeview Hall, and the chums did not wish to lose any of their short stay at home.
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