The Corner House Girls at School

according to the superstitiously inclined-that t

spent part of each forenoon reading that gossipy sheet. She insisted upon seeing the paper just as regularly as sh

e paper in before going to her room after breakfas

h it, to save Aunt Sarah the bother of coming down again. As she was about to ask the boy for it, Ruth noticed that he was st

ents and small advertisements-like "Lost and Found," the death and marriage notices, an

r the top of the column. He stood there, motionless, long eno

tiptoed off the veranda, disappearing around the corner of the

th him?" murmured Ruth, an

the usual requests for the return of absent friends, and several cryptic messages

al" was different.

mself Sorber, or Jakeway. His Guardian will pay Fifty Dollars for information of his safety

no more appeal to her just then than did half a doze

in the column of advertising to so affect him. Perhaps had Agnes been at hand to discuss the matter

ng which she wished to tell Ruth that she quite drove thought of the white-haired boy, for

t Eva Larry on the Parade, and that Trix Sev

placidly. "A very well-dressed gi

Pleasant Cove. But I don't like her. And I'm not going to like

't be foolish,"

what that nasty Trix s

h-no matter what she says,"

er again when Trix is with her. I came along behind them across the Parade

I said. 'Mrs. MacCall is wa

ire somebody to run your errands, if you've got all the m

, Aggie!" asked the

s, "'there's no lazy-bones in our family, thank goodness!' For Eva told me that Tri

gue of yours," said

me: 'Oh! people who haven't been used to leisure don't real

e is going, and don't have to be idle, either. And whoever t

was in the worst poss

y. "She's a nasty thing! And when I hurr

r, says those Kenways never had two cents to bless themselves with

e Beatrice Severn, you need not associate with her-not even if she is going to be in your grade a

best friend, or not," said Agnes, reflective

uddenly over it, and seeking another affinity with bewildering fickleness. Eva Larry h

eath, or time, in discussing Beatrice Severn and her impudent tongue. A steady "

the upper shelves in the dining-room china closet. "There's one rug in the sitting

She literally ran to the sittin

r! She had selected the wrong side of the door upon which to crouch, w

ut by pulling open the door, Agnes banged the door right against the unconscious Dot-and so hard that Dot and

Everybody in the house came running to the rescue. Even Aunt Sarah came t

ering for herself. "No-no-

uise was soon treated. While they were all comforting her

nded. "Who's mur

imed Dot, wi

se about losing a little old tooth?

rew it forth, it was with a pained and surprised expressi

on the doorknob. Didn't I tell you tha

e, you see. When Aggie ran in and knocked me

with them. She recovered more quickly from the loss o