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| "Her keen gray eyes swept him one quick look" (See page4) | [Frontispiece] |
| "Lay back under its sheltering canopy with a suppressed giggle" | [52] |
| "Instead, it seemed as if a small cyclone swept through the room" | [79] |
| "The girlish figure enveloped in a long loose working apron" | [125] |
| "She was a fascinating little creature, all smiles and dimples" | [153] |
| "All she saw was the teller's window, with a shrewd-eyed man behind its bars" | [172] |
| "Out on the porch she heard from Norman how it had happened" | [263] |
| "When she drove a nail it held things together" | [280] |
THE LITTLE COLONEL'S CHUM:
MARY WARE
CHAPTER I
MARY ENTERS WARWICK HALL
The bus running between Warwick Hall Station and Warwick Hall school drew up at the door of the great castle-like building with as grand a flourish as if it carried the entire Senior class, and deposited one lone passenger upon the steps. As it was several days before the opening of the Fall term, no pupils were expected so soon, and but few of the teachers had returned. There was no one to see the imposing arrival of the little Freshman except the butler, who had been drawn to the front window by the sound of wheels. It devolved on him to answer the knocker this afternoon. In the general confusion of house-cleaning the man who attended the door had been sent up stairs to hang curtains.