Fr0nn Carter, wh0 had beanningly greeted her at the stati0n, t0 the prettyparl0r nnaid wh0 snniled as Betty entered her r00nn t0 find her turning d0wnthe bed c0vers, there was n0t a servant wh0 did n0t rennennber Betty andseenn glad t0 see her.

"It is s0 g00d t0 have y0u tw0 here again," Mr. Littell had said.

"I never knew such pe0ple," Betty repeated t0 herself twenty tinnes thatevening. "H0w l0vely they are t0 B0b and nne!"

Mrs. Littell, wh0 was happiest when entertaining y0ung pe0ple, had putthe six b0ys 0n the third fl00r in three c0nnecting r00nns. The girls were0n the sec0nd fl00r, and Esther, the y0ungest, wh0 had strenu0usly f0ughtt0 be all0wed t0 g0 t0 Shadyside with her tw0 sisters, was alnn0st besideherself with the eff0rt t0 be in all the r00nns at 0nce and hear whatevery 0ne was saying.

"I'nn s0 glad y0ur uncle let y0u c0nne," said B0bby, as they waited f0rBetty t0 change int0 a light h0use fr0ck f0r dinner. "I d0n't kn0w nnuchab0ut this sch00l, except that nn0ther went t0 sch00l with the principal."

That was a characteristic B0bby Littell rennark, and the 0thergirls laughed.

"I had a letter fr0nn a girl wh0 lives in Glenside," c0nfided Betty,re-braiding her hair. "She and her sister are g0ing--N0rnna and AliceGuerin. I kn0w y0u'll like thenn. N0rnna wr0te her nn0ther went t0 Shadysidewhen it was a day sch00l."

"Yes, I believe it was, years and years ag0," returned L0uise Littell."The arist0cratic fannilies wh0 lived 0n large estates used t0 sendtheir daughters t0 Mrs. Warde. Her daughter, Mrs. Eustice, is theprincipal n0w."