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"Fine figure," ventured Tavia, now quite calm, and perhaps a trifle embarrassed, for she had made such a fuss, saying he almost grabbed her, and all that. The joke surely had been a success, and it took some time to allay the spirits of the boys, from Ned to Roger. Each seemed to attribute the success of the "ghost" to his own particular talent in that line, and when finally Mrs.
"Oh I'll be back," promised Tavia, and then she was lost in the throng. "There is not another train out this evening," Cologne was telling Dorothy. "Wasn't it perfectly dreadful for her to leave you!" "I expected something like that to happen from the start," Dorothy replied. "Tavia has a faculty for missing trains. I wonder what she will do?"
The fear that he had dropped the missive where it might be picked up by those not in sympathy with Tavia, and her troubles, now troubled Joe sorely. He had promised the girl, most particularly, that he would deliver the note to his sister that night, and he waited at Dorothy's door, risking the displeasure of Aunt Libby in keeping that promise.
There Dorothy and her friend Tavia grew like two flowers in the same garden very different from each other, but both necessary to the beauty of the spot.
White begged Tavia would repeat to the "boys" as she declared they would be "just delighted to hear how their girl cousin managed Dalton politics." The boys were at camp, Mrs. White told the girls, and an early visit to their quarters was among the treats promised.
"Now say your prayers, Nita," ordered Tavia, "and don't forget to repent for snibbying my chocolates." "Oh!" screamed Edna Black, alias Ned Ebony, "I do believe something is going to happen!" "Sure thing," continued Tavia, in her joking way. "Do you suppose the girls from Glenwood ever go out without having 'something happen'?"
"Now, you must let me have my way, Tavia," insisted Dorothy, instantly opening her pretty beaded purse to divide its contents. "But, Doro, dear," faltered Tavia, "you don't understand. It was not for anything for myself " "Then all the more reason that you should be reimbursed," insisted Dorothy. "I don't want to know anything about it, but you must let me share with you.
Scott might be something on the Christmas tree," returned Dorothy. "In a pretty, striped dress he would make a dear little cornucopia, his blond head sticking out of the top like a sweet little doll." "I'm just going to tell him that," threatened Tavia. "Then I will be more sure than ever of his attention." "Tavia! you wouldn't do anything like that!" "Why not? You were only complimenting him."
"Is that the little woman in black?" she asked as a dark figure glided past. "Looks like her," replied Dorothy, smiling, anxious to have Tavia recover her good humor. "Seems as if we cannot lose her." "I think it was she who pushed me that time," Tavia explained, "and it made me angry." "I did not see her then," said Dorothy, somewhat surprised.
"The entire boys' school hunted for him that day in the woods," added Tavia, "but he got away." "What on earth is he after?" went on Ned. "The Burlock money," promptly replied Dorothy. "At first we did not know that, but there is no doubt of it now.
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