The Girls
of Central High
Aiding the Red Cross
OR
AMATEUR THEATRICALS FOR
A WORTHY CAUSE
BY
GERTRUDE W. MORRISON
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I THE ODDEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED
XXII THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST PURT
CHAPTER I
THE ODDEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED
"Well, if that isn't the oddest thing that ever happened!"murmured Laura Belding, sitting straight up on the stool beforethe high desk in her father's glass-enclosed office, from whichelevation she could look down the long aisles of his jewelrystore and out into Market Street, Centerport's main businessthoroughfare.
But Laura was not looking down the vista of the electricallylighted shop and into the icy street. Instead, she gave herattention to that which lay right under her eyes upon the desktop. She looked first at the neat figures she had written uponthe page of the day ledger, after carefully proving them, andthence at the packet of bills and piles of coin on the desk athe