Nancy Brandon

human," as her friends might say, but she was sensitive about the disorder she pretended to

hey both listened to the jangling bell

lse. And it isn't yellow," she countered. "But please,

ifully. "But I won'

now within the store, she could easily hear them talking and

red boy, and Nancy was glad to no

swers with the girls in the store, Ted

of hissed at Nancy. "

y. Tell them w

orth with

ater he again c

What ever on ear

sharply. "We're all out of sewi

re. You go ahead and 'tend it." Ted was on a strike now. He

and then patting her disordered hair. She had been rushing a

dn't worry about your looks." His eyes paid Nancy a decided compliment with the car

ing, and when she finally walked up

ce liked her. "You're the girl we've been trying to meet. This is Vera Johns and

s wondering if I would get acquainted away out here. Won't you sit down? Here's a b

after Teddy had called out from the back door, that he was going

d Ruth. She had reddish-brown hair,

ise housework and mother believes I should learn something practical. I just begg

Nancy glanced quickly at her. Was she fooling? Could any girl mean so sense

mured Nancy, "why,

of girl. She would be apt to say any silly little thing that had the fewest words in it. Jus

t of an Egyptian slave. Her eyes, Nancy noticed were a faded blue, and her form-Nan

ess. Just as you say, Nancy, we learn to wash doll dishes as soon as we can reach a kitche

hoping for the joy of finding a mutual underst

s we just have to get used to it, so we won't know we're doing it. You would be

"I adore dishes, but I won't

y bobble more than they babble. But I guess you're not much

ra was already proving a pretty good joke. Their acquain

he also was correspondingly sunny in her disposition. She wore her hair twisted into three or four "Spring Maids" and

a hairdresser's window. Also, she wore, bound around it a Roman ribbon, with a wonderful assortment of rainbow colors. Her costume was sport, with a very fancy jac

ing the newly acq

he manager, th

o play store, so now, mother says, she hopes I'll be satisfied. But this

uth. "I guess of late years they didn't have t

a. "Don't you know every bo

s Mr. Townsend lent out his money

y desperate fight over it," insisted

rate fight. Sister Sarah would say to Brother Elmer: 'Elmer dear, you really can't mean a thing like that,'" imitated Ruth,

hed merrily as the

erate those two would

" demanded Vera. "Every body

the country every summer, and mother thought this might suit us. It is so convenient for her to commute, and

d fellow we saw him with today, he may get into mischief,"

tter with Mr. Sanders?" dem

nterposed. "Just because he sees fi

, Ruth, that is more tha

in demanded Nancy, dropping her bo

deliberateness, "if you were to see a person in fr

Nancy broke in rudely

tone. "Don't believe me if you do

gaily. "Do you mean to say he's o

rent about him. A lot of people say he does disappear, but of course, there'

," draw

uppress an impolite b