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Updated: October 10, 2025
"But fate decreed it otherwise. In my feverish haste, I had forgotten to place among the stores of my pirate craft that peculiar kind of chocolate caramel to which Eliza Jane was most partial. We were obliged to put into New Rochelle on the second day out, to enable Miss Sniffen to procure that delicacy at the nearest confectioner's, and match some zephyr worsteds at the first fancy shop.
Lurking in the background, however, ready to leap forward as soon as she should be alone, was the torturing fact that Miss Sniffen still kept cruel wardship over her prisoners, and she counted over and over, joyfully marking them off one by one on her calendar, the days before Mr. Randolph would be at home again.
Albright was in the corner room. "I will deliver these now," she said, "before it is time for Miss Sniffen." "I'm afraid she'll catch you in there some day," Polly told her with a troubled little nod. "What if she should!" Mrs. Albright laughed softly. "When I hear anybody coming I slip into the closet I have done that several times already! I do hope this letter will do Miss Twining good.
She did mean to, but for once she got fooled. I lay still as a mouse, hearing her fumble round my door. Finally she went downstairs. When I was sure she'd gone for good I took my key and stole across the hall. Sure enough, it unlocked the door, just as I hoped it would. Oh, that poor child was so glad to see me! Miss Sniffen had come up prepared to give her a whipping!
"I feel sometimes as if I were a nuisance," laughed Polly. "I guess Miss Sniffen thinks so. She looks at me so queer when she meets me in the hall." "It is only her way. She can't have anything against you." Polly shook her head doubtfully; then she smiled.
I think I said it was because he stayed with us and took us to ride." "Well, it can't be helped," laughed Miss Sterling, "but how could you, Polly?" "I should think you'd be glad to have him know how Miss Sniffen acts." "Sh! Somebody's coming!" "I must go," Polly whispered. She let in Mrs. Albright and Miss Crilly. "Oh, what dandy roses!" Miss Crilly dashed over to the window.
"I never thought of Miss Sniffen's being dishonest with money. I don't see how she can " "Easy enough in a place like that. But this other is pretty bad business. If Miss Twining should happen to die without any doctor, and the authorities should find out that Miss Sniffen beat " "No, she didn't!" interrupted Polly. "I suppose she meant to, but Miss Twining fainted and that put a stop to it.
Wasn't the ride lovely?" Polly squeezed her friend's arm. "Say, did you know, at the very last minute Miss Sniffen sent over word that Mrs. Bonnyman couldn't go? She had the toothache, and so mother came in her place! Oh, I did wish you were in our car! I wanted to say, 'Isn't that beautiful? and 'Just look at this!" "You could talk to David," laughed Miss Sterling. "Oh, yes, I did some!
"I can't tell; I've lost the map of Miss Sniffen's mind." "Did you ever have it?" laughed Polly. "I think once I had a facsimile of it." Polly chuckled. Then she shook her head doubtfully. "I wish Miss Sniffen wasn't Miss Sniffen," she mused vaguely. Suddenly she brightened. "Why can't we tell Mr. Randolph about it and ask him to ask Miss Sniffen?" She waited eagerly for the answer.
That's just a bluff! Miss Sniffen got scared and made up all that rubbish! Miss Twining is beautiful. I love her oh, I love her dearly! She writes the nicest poetry! Father says it is real poetry, too." "Why did Miss Sniffen wish to whip her?" "Just because she wouldn't tell who gave her some money. She couldn't she had promised not to! And it was her own money!
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