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The boys laughed at Tavia's defense, but Joe and Roger were impatient to hear all about the ghost, and they begged Tavia to go on with her story. "What did the light do?" asked Roger, edging up so close to Tavia that his curly head brushed her elbow. "Why, Roger, dear," said Dorothy kindly, "you must not believe in such nonsense. There are no such things as ghosts."
"But I've promised myself a whole night with you, and I'm not going to be chased away, just at the witching hour," Tavia insisted.
She had found the path to Jane Pumfret's affection it was cheek, just plain cheek, sometimes called courage. Yes, it was late, but Dorothy still had Tavia to console if only she could insist upon Tavia spending Christmas at The Cedars Dorothy had unlimited faith in the magic of the day before Christmas. Nat called to her as she started up to Tavia's room. "I say, Doro, maybe I could help.
There, now, I am quite comfortable," and as Dorothy laid the wraps aside her aunt settled among the blue cushions, which, as Nat said, "grew in Dorothy's room." "Is it to be a play?" asked Tavia, always impatient where acting might be concerned. "Well, not exactly," answered Mrs. White. "We think scenes from Mother Goose will be simpler, and just as entertaining. Mrs.
She enjoyed most of the nonsense that girls between fifteen and eighteen years of age usually enjoy. The strange young men, Tom Jennings and Roland Scott, whom the White boys had taken to the woods on the "evergreen hunt," called that very morning came to make their "party call," they said. Dorothy and Tavia were busy with the Christmas wreaths when the strangers happened in.
It seemed incredible that two girls should be way-laid in broad daylight, in the hall of the most public building in Dalton, but the fact was certainly plain there was the dirty white handkerchief reeking with some drug, and besides, there was the hat that Tavia had taken from the man's head.
"You have been doing very well lately," said Miss Ellis, "and during the days you were away we had scarcely any new lessons nothing but review. You were always fair in mathematics when you put your mind to your work. Now let us see if you cannot surprise everyone by getting all through not conditioned in anything." Such encouragement was all Tavia needed. How quickly the morning passed!
"I made a discovery in Rochester," said Tavia, when she had exhausted every possible point, covering the sickness of her friend, the fainting in school and all that preceded and followed that occurrence. "Yes, I found out that a woman there, who did washing for my aunt, is named Burlock, and that she has been deserted by her husband " "Has she a daughter?" interrupted Dorothy.
But the idea of a contest was quickly taken up by the others, so that soon the party had paired off, and racing with the strings of laurel became a matter of enjoyment, and not a question of work. Dorothy took her place with Tom; Agnes Sinclair was with Ned; Nat went to work with Eva Brownlie, and Tavia sat beside Roland. How quickly the fingers flew!
If Tavia had felt "alarmed at the style" as she afterward told Dorothy, the moment Mrs. White grasped her hand in welcoming her to Birchland all nervousness left her, for Mrs. White had an unmistakable way of greeting her guests she really was glad to see them.
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