Amelia Boggs, using most u

r jokes, was by no means petty. She burst into such a good-natured

"the biter for once is the bitten.

e hastened to offer

al spirits. We just do slop over at this time, my dear. Wait till you see how gentle and decor

f hospitality?" asked Rhoda Hammond, with more t

an! consider what they did to us when we came h

get that trying time. She had been on a very different footing with her scho

pprehend something of this change, for s

and bear it, too. Though it isn't just as we are taught to treat strangers out home. A

dancing, "it works just the opposite a

e could scarcely realize now that she was the same Nan Sherw

if a most wonderful and startling thing had not happened, Nan and Momsey and Papa Sherwood would never have been separate

e same town; but they were much better off financially than the Sherwoods. Mr. Sherwood was a foreman in the Atwater Mills, and when t

leaving her some property in Scotland. But it was necessary for her to a

ch, however, that her

a hard blow to the g

e determination of Mom

Scotland, Nan started

irst book of this seri

ventures in the lumber

itle of: "Nan Sherwood

erman's

atter of Momsey's fortune had not then been settled in the Scotch courts; but enough money had been advanced

e first introduced to boarding-school life, and to this very merry, if somewhat thoughtless, com

er semester at Lakeview Hall. She had made friends, as she always did; and the Masons, Grace and Walter, determined to have her with them in Chicago over the holidays. Theref

way to be motion picture actresses. In addition Nan Sherwood had saved little Inez, a street child, and had taken her back to "the little dwelling in amity," as Papa Sherwood called their Tillbury

he coming of the girl in brown, Rhoda Hammond, more ple

st, Mrs. Cupp said so, and Mrs. Cupp, Doctor Beulah Prescott's housekeeper, ought to

ed Laura Polk, "we've l

the end of the big hall. She scarcely responded to the greetings of the gi

time arrived, come into my office at once. There

the girl in brown to hear her, "she is in a dreadful temper. She c

s "with a grain of salt." She as

ment of torture is t

he will wring tears from your eyes before she gets through wi

th," warned Nan,

r word. Bess looked after her wi

't she beauti

d Nan. "But Mrs. Cupp will hav

s. "She'll give her an earful about dressin

girl's outfit showed beautiful taste, even if she is dre

ury sought the pleasant dining-room where the whole school-"primes" as well as the fo

n Mrs. Cupp, who, all through the meal, marched up and down the room wit

as their chum and "Big Sister." Nothing would do but she mu

ing back Beautiful Beulah all safe and sound with y

n take the doll away. Mrs. Cupp has charge of it, and if she lets

for Nan's big doll was an institution at Lakeview Hall

meal Nan was dragged a

excited and h

n's ear. "That new girl is on our corridor. You

er ei

hoda has got it. An

ef," replied Nan,

nted. Says a girl died there two years ago and it's never be

"She will have some of these little girls, who will be bound to hear the tale

," said Bess carelessly. "Come on, old Poky. We're

in, "if only to make sure that you crazy