MARGARET BELKNAP’S BROTHER COULD BE SEEN DANCING ATTENDANCE ON JEAN
THE RANCH GIRLS SERIES
The Ranch Girls at Boarding School
By
Margaret Vandercook
Illustrated By
Hugh A. Bodine
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA
Copyright, 1913, by
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
CONTENTS
I. “STILL AS THE NIGHT”
II. IN DISGRACE
III. “GERRY”
IV. GETTING INTO HARNESS
V. NEWS AND A DISCOVERY
VI. HER TEMPTATION
VII. CINDERELLA
VIII. SHADOWS BEFORE
IX. FRIEDA’S MISTAKE
X. THE HOUSE OF MEMORY
XI. “SLEEPY HOLLOW, A LAND OF DREAMS”
XII. WINIFRED GRAHAM AND GERRY
XIII. THE APPEAL TO OLIVE
XIV. “TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE”
XV. THE DANGER OF WEALTH
XVI. ELECTION DAY
XVII. CONGRATULATIONS
XVIII. FANCIES OR MEMORIES?
XIX. NEW YEAR’S EVE
XX. THE TRUE HISTORY OF OLIVE
XXI. JEAN AND FRIEDA RETURN TO PRIMROSE HALL
XXII. READJUSTMENTS
XXIII. “MAY TIME is GAY TIME”
XXIV. SHAKESPEARE’S HEROINES
XXV. “JACK”
The Ranch Girls at Boarding School
CHAPTER I
“STILL AS THE NIGHT”
Would the long night never pass? A figure on a bed in a bigbare room stirred and then sighed. Ages ago a clock in thegreat house known as Primrose Hall, not far from the famousregion of “Sleepy Hollow,” had struck three, then four, andnow one, two, three, four, five solemn strokes boomed forthand yet not a glimmer of light nor a sound to announce thecoming of morning.
“In the Lord put I my trust; how say ye then to my soul,that she should flee as a bird unto the hill? For lo, theungodly bend their bow and make ready their arrow within thequiver, that they may privily shoot at them which are trueof heart,” a tired voice murmured, and then after a shortpause: “Oh, girls, are you awake yet? Aren’t you ever, evergoing to wake up? Dear me, this night already seems to me tohave lasted forever and ever!” For no answer had followedthe question, although a door stood wide open between thisand an adjoining room and the bed in the other room wasoccupied by two persons.
Five minutes crawled by and then another five. Tired ofreciting the “Psalms of David” to induce repose, the wakefulfigure slippe