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Gordon had sent her a ten-dollar note, but through Madame Schakael. When she asked him if she could go home with Jennie Bruce over Easter, he sent her at once another twenty dollars and his permission the latter just as short as it could be written. Scorch evidently watched the mail basket on Mr. Gordon's desk with the eye of an eagle.
Madame Schakael said I wasn't to go out " And then she remembered the bag she had tossed out of the window. She must have that bag back, if she wasn't going away. If it remained there over night perhaps Mr. Pease, or Samuel, would find it. And then the story would all come out, and her position in the school would be worse!
It was the first invitation of the kind Nancy Nelson had ever received, so you can imagine how overjoyed she was. Madame Schakael approved. Then it was necessary to get Mr. Gordon's permission. Nancy had thanked Mr. Gordon for the twenty-dollar bill he had sent her, but had not heard personally from him in reply.
She is so unhappy here that she was going to run away from Pinewood Hall and get work somewhere that is what she was going to do. "She packed this bag and tossed it out of the window, and then she ran down to the door intending to slip away. But she remembered that she had been forbidden to leave the building at this time of day, and that Madame Schakael had trusted her.
In a moment she shot the other girl a scornful glance and, without a word to Madame Schakael, walked out of the office. It really did seem as though it was Nancy who had done the wrong, instead of her roommate. "You are here to see me, Miss Nelson?" asked the Madame, briskly, ignoring the other girl and her report. "Yes, Madame." "Because of what I said at prayers?" "Yes, Madame."
Scorch had promised to watch "Old Gordon" and write to her. He had used one of the office envelopes and had stolen a minute when some typewriter was not in use. Madame Schakael thought both letters were from Mr. Gordon. Nancy was too curious as to what Scorch had written to deny herself the reading of the contraband epistle.
The Madame did not believe that all work was good for Jill, any more than it is good for Jack. When the snow came there was sleigh-riding, class parties being made up while the moon was big, the girls going off in great "barges," which would hold from forty to sixty of them, and stopping at a certain country tavern, of which Madame Schakael approved, where hot oyster stews were served.
But when Nancy found that certain of her class were hazing the new-comers in a serious way, she took the class to task for it. She called a meeting and reminded them that it would displease both the new captains of the school Mary Miggs on the West Side and Polly Hyams on the East as well as Madame Schakael herself, if hazing of the new girls continued.
Madame Schakael, she believed, had not hunted out the mystery of her being with Jennie Bruce. Would she and Sally be the only ones punished for this affair? Morning came and with it the usual assembly in the hall for prayers after breakfast.
"And your record to date has been quite the best of any girl of your class." Nancy locked her hands together and gazed at the principal. But she could say nothing. "You say Jennie Bruce is not to blame?" asked Madame Schakael, after another minute of silence. "Oh, no, Madame!" "Oh, dear me!" cried the other girl, "You just don't understand, Madame "
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