CHAPTER III

AN ADVENTURE ON THE RAIL


That adventurous afternoon on Pendragon Hill was the last chance the
girls of Lakeview Hall had that term for bobsledding. School closed the
next day and those pupils who lived farthest away, and who went home for
the holidays, started that very evening by train from Freeling.

Nan and her chum, Bess Harley, were two who hurried away from the Hall.
Tillbury was a night's ride from Lakeview Hall, and the chums did not
wish to lose any of their short stay at home.

It had already been planned and agreed to that Nan and Bess were to go to
Chicago to visit in the Masons' home during a part of this vacation, and
the two friends, who knew very little of city life, were eager indeed for
the new experience.

Walter and Grace had started for Chicago that morning, and when the two
Tillbury girls saw how hard it was snowing when Charley, with his 'bus on
runners, drove them to the station, they wished that they had asked the
privilege of Dr. Beulah Prescott, the principal, of going early, too.

"This yere's goin' to be a humdinger of a storm," prophesied Charley.
"You gals'll maybe get snowed up on the train."