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Updated: June 4, 2025
The sound of an automobile horn caused Grace to run to the window. "It's the bus!" she cried. "Three strange girls are getting out of it. Evidently our freshmen have arrived. That tall girl looks interesting. One of them is as stout as Elfreda. The little girl is cunning. I think I like her the best of the three.
Stir yourselves!" Through the smoke, the flying sparks and the pungent, almost overpowering odors, the Overland Riders ran with their arms full of spruce boughs. "What are we to do?" cried Elfreda. "I feel as helpless as a child."
"How do you do?" said Grace politely. "I hope we are not intruding." The young woman merely scowled by way of answer. "I wonder how I'd better begin," pondered Grace, looking squarely into the hostile eyes. Elfreda stood calmly surveying the scowling girl. "You might ask us to sit down," she observed impertinently. The young woman glanced at the stout girl with an expression of angry amazement.
"We will be in your room within the next ten minutes," said Grace decisively. "Such hospitality is not met with every day." True to her word, ten minutes later she and Anne were seated on the foot of Elfreda's bed, kimono clad and smiling, while Elfreda labored with the fruit punch.
"Look here. I think this is the very place meant." "Oh, Elfreda, I believe you're right!" cried Grace after studying the map, which Elfreda put before her, for a moment. "There's the pyramid rock and the waterfall.
She could hardly bear to have Elfreda out of her sight, so greatly had she come to rely on her. On the other hand, Elfreda was supremely satisfied with her rôle of guardian angel.
I stepped on it while going upstairs this morning and tore it just above the hem. I had to change it for this, and was almost late for chapel." "I waited for you in the hall as long as I could," said Anne. "I meant to ask you what happened, but forgot it. Grace, what do you suppose Elfreda said before you came upstairs?" "I can't possibly guess," rejoined Grace.
"Where did you find her, Elfreda? Can she really tell fortunes?" "She can," Elfreda asserted with solemn positiveness. "Wait and see. Where I found her is a secret for to-night. Perhaps if you are good, I'll tell you all about her to-morrow." "But to-morrow never comes," reminded Patience Eliot. "You'd better tell us now." "Can't do it." Elfreda beamed mysteriously on the Emerson twins.
"But you guessed it, didn't you, Miriam?" Recalling the latter's inspiration of that afternoon, Anne turned to her sister-in-law. "Yes. It flashed across me all of a sudden. You know Elfreda said Emma might descend upon us when we least expected her. That's what set me to thinking." "I ought to have guessed," mourned Sara Emerson. "All the glory of the discovery goes to my twin sister.
Arline had written her father for the promised check for five hundred dollars, which would be deposited in the bank in Gertrude Wells's name as soon as it arrived. "I might as well tell you now that I wrote and asked Pa for a check in spite of what Grace said," confessed Elfreda rather sheepishly. "I might as well confess that I mentioned the club idea to Mother," said Miriam.
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