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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Well Jack, I like you just as well as if you grew in a hot house better, because you have taught me the value of life's storms you have grown outside and know the music of the winds," and with the flowers she gave her friend all the hug she dared risk in the presence of the "railroad line" on Tavia's neck.
Cologne had scarcely spoken since Tavia mentioned the Lamberts, and Dorothy was doing her best to restore good nature and peace to both of her companions. Yet she was greatly annoyed at Tavia's rudeness. Why should she persist in ignoring common courtesy and thus keeping up that Lambert question?
Travers managed somehow, to have an excuse for her failure in getting her daughter ready she was that kind of helpless, shiftless person, who rarely had things ready for her children, especially in the matter of Tavia's clothes. "Your dress looks real pretty," declared Dorothy, as the girls hurried along to the school. "Thanks to you for ironing it," responded Tavia, with gratitude in her voice.
Only waiting to snatch up a sandwich left from her brothers' lunch, for she knew the noon hour would be a busy time at the Bugle office, Dorothy hurried out and over to Tavia's. "I can't go to school to-day," she called in at the half opened door. "Father is sick, and I must attend to some business for him." "Bad?" queried Tavia, for she noticed the change in her friend's manner.
"Aunt Winnie had this gown made for me last week," replied Dorothy, ignoring all of Tavia's criticism save that which referred to the blended gold and white princess. "Isn't it sweet?" "Matches you as if you had been made for it," replied Tavia, in her way of saying things backwards. "Your hair seems all of a piece."
He simply would not tell her a word of what might have occurred in her absence, and she finally gave up asking him to do so. "All right," she assured him. "If Tavia's gone I'll blame you, that's all." Roger met her at the door. "Some one's waiting for you in the parlor, Doro," he said, without waiting to "digest" his sister's greeting. Dorothy opened the parlor door.
"Yes, it was dreadful on all of us," agreed Dorothy, from whom the change in Tavia's manner could not be hidden. "But you must forget it, and think of the good time we are going to have to-morrow. Think of it! Going out in the real mountains, with real boys for guides! Of course you will have your pick of the boys, Cologne and I must be satisfied with what remains."
Dorothy flew back to her room, agitated, but comforted that Ned was resting. This knowledge seemed to assure her that he was not seriously injured, and now she took up the Tavia question. "She must not go home," Dorothy repeated. "I will see if she is still up." A glimmer of light stole under Tavia's door. Dorothy tapped lightly, but opened the door unbidden.
"Evidently she has not told her father that," the major replied, "for only this morning he assured me he would give the doctor's bill into the hands of a collector." "Oh, that would be too bad! Tavia's folks are so poor. I must see Sarah." "Do you have to straighten that matter out also? Well, Little Captain, I am afraid you have a busy time of it.
All Tavia's contrition and her determination to do what was right, which sentiment had entirely possessed her when she entered the room, seemed to have gone with the mention of Miss Brooks' name. "If she has told Dorothy," thought Tavia, "there is no need for me to repeat it."
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