“Linda Riggs? Oh, yes. Didn’t you know that?”
“Oh, dear, me,” sighed Nan.
“Well!” cried Bess. “Who is she?”
“It is no breach of confidence on my part,” replied the dry professor, “for she explains the fact to everybody, if I tell you that she is the daughter of Mr. Henry W. Riggs, the railroad magnate.”
“Then she must be very rich,” almost whispered Bess.
“Her father is,” Professor Krenner said briefly.
Bess was deeply impressed, it was evident. But Nan already dreaded the shadow of Linda Riggs’ presence in her school life.
CHAPTER IV
LUCK AND PLUCK
Nan found Professor Krenner a most amusing companion. She was eager to hear all she could from him regarding the school to which she and Bess Harley were bound.