extra charge.

"You mean that you want to run with that Nan Sherwood and Bess
Harley crew!" exclaimed Linda.

"I want to get into some of the fun. And so do you, Linda! Don't
act offish," and Cora walked toward the open door to meet the new
arrivals.

It was a terrible shock to the railroad magnate's daughter--this.
The defection of her chief henchman and ally would rather break up
the little group which Laura Polk had unkindly dubbed "the School
of Snobs." With all her wealth Linda had but few retainers.

In the van of the newcomers were a rather comely, brown-eyed girl
with a bright and cheerful expression of countenance, a dark beauty
with curls and flashing eyes, and a demure but pretty girl to whom
Lillie Nevins ran with exclamations of joy. This last was Grace
Mason, the flaxen-haired girl's chum.

"Oh, Nancy! how well you look," cried Laura, hugging the brown-eyed
girl. And to the curly-haired one: "What mischief have you got
into, Bess? You look just as though you had done something."

"Don't say a word!" gasped Bess Harley in the red-haired girl's
ear. "It's what we are going to do. Some sawneys have arrived.
We'll have a procession."

"Oh, say!" exclaimed Amelia Boggs, "there is one special sawney
expected. Did she come on this train with you other girls?"