"They ought to be arrested," Nan said, "and if the professors can't
stop it they should not be allowed to run such schools."

"There," said Dorothy, "I guess everything is all right for Nellie."
She put a rose jar on a table in the alcove window. "Now I'll wind
the clocks. You mustn't look where I put them," and she insisted that
not even Nan should know the mystery of the clocks. "This will be a
real surprise party," finished Dorothy, having put each of five clocks
in its hiding place, and leaving the tick-ticks to think it over, all
by themselves, before going off.


CHAPTER VII
NELLIE

"Shall I take my cart over to meet Nellie and Mrs. Manily, mother?"
Dorothy asked Mrs. Minturn, that afternoon, when the city train was
about due.

"Why, yes, daughter, I think that would be very nice," replied the
mother. "I intended to send the depot wagon, but the cart would be
very enjoyable."

Bert had the donkeys hitched up and at the door for Nan and Dorothy in
a very few minutes, and within a half-hour from that time Nan was
greeting Nellie at the station, and making her acquainted with
Dorothy.

If Dorothy had expected to find in the little cash girl a poor,