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Up to this inning he had been insolent in his self-confidence and contempt for the visitors, but the strain now put upon him proved too much, and he hit Crane in the ribs, following with a pass to Hooker, which filled the corners. Then, amid the tumultuous cheering and laughter of the Oakdale crowd. Captain Holley sent Newbert to the bench and called Twitt Crowell forth to take his place.
Helena to claim my empire. For years I have been an exile, but now I am free, free." He waved his arms wildly. "Yes, of course I know you, now," said Grace, thinking to mollify him. "How strange that I didn't recognize you before." Then she remembered reading in the paper of the preceding night of the escape of a dangerous lunatic from the state asylum, that was situated a few miles from Oakdale.
I hope I lose that mum-money, and, if you'll trust me, I'll do my level best to make myself lose it." The Oakdale captain turned on Rackliff. "Get off the field," he ordered sternly. "Get back where you belong, and be quick about it." Herbert retired, his last remaining hope being that Phil would go to pieces in the ninth.
To be sure they had unlimited faith in Jessica's father, but it was so much easier to talk about taking Mabel away from Miss Brant than to do it. "I'm terribly afraid of facing her," confided Jessica to Grace. "She is the terror of Oakdale, you know." "She can't hurt us," said Grace. "Your father will do all the talking. All we need to do is to take charge of Mabel, after Miss Brant gives her up."
"You are always so busy with your inventions and contrivances. What is the latest? A flying machine?" "You guessed right the very first time," replied David. "It is just that." "Really?" laughed the girls, incredulously, while Anne's eyes grew large with interest. "Shall you fly around Oakdale in it?" asked Jessica. "Oh, we are not building big ones yet," answered David. "These are little fellows.
They called themselves the 'Meadow-Brook Girls, but they were real Campfire girls. They had spent a summer in camp and had won whole strings of beads for their achievements." "They spent a day or two in Oakdale," explained Miriam. "One of them, a funny little girl who lisped, was a cousin of Hippy Wingate. Her name was Grace Thompson, but her three chums called her Tommy.
Here the reader will make the acquaintance of Eleanor Savell, a clever but exceedingly wilful girl, whose advent in Oakdale High School brings about a series of happenings that make the story one of absorbing interest.
Come, come, I own I was too business-like in rushing to the point at once, and I no longer say, 'Marry my niece off-hand. You have only seen her disguised and in a false position. Pay me a visit at Oakdale; stay with me a month; and if at the end of that time you do not like her well enough to propose, I'll let you off and say no more about it." While Mr.
It was New Year's, and Anne Pierson's wedding night. At half-past seven the ceremony linking her life forever to that of her school-day friend, David Nesbit, was to be performed in the beautiful old stone church on Chapel Hill which, in company with her chums, she had faithfully attended during her years spent in Oakdale.
Harlowe knew of how near Marian had come to being discredited in the eyes of her class and friends, and they could be trusted with the secret. Henry Hammond had left Oakdale the morning after he had been interviewed by Grace and Eleanor, and it was afterwards discovered that the land in which he had persuaded certain guileless citizens to invest money had proved worthless.
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