CHAPTER XVI.
JOHN’S MISSION.
It was the first of August, and as yet John Hadley had received no answer to the letter he had written some time ago to Marjorie. He watched anxiously for a letter from her, which would reassure him as the continuation of their friendship. But it did not come.
He mentioned the fact to Dorothy Snyder when he next saw her at Cape May. She had advised him to write to Marjorie, and had attributed the girl’s silence to his failure to start the correspondence again; now he was proving that she was wrong. Evidently Marjorie did not care anything about him after all.
“She probably has a good many interests,” said Dorothy, consolingly.
“She always has a lot of interests,” he admitted, grudgingly. “And probably they’re in the form of young men at the ranch now!”
“Not necessarily,” said Dorothy. “Didn’t you say she is a Girl Scout? Well, they always have lots to do. And if she is thinking about graduating, and going to college—”
“She did graduate from Miss Allen’s Boarding School this summer,” interrupted John. “And I believe she is planning to go to college in the Fall.”
“Miss Allen’s Boarding School!” repeated Dorothy, almost to herself. “Where have I heard of that school before?”
“You probably knew somebody who went there,” suggested John, glancing critically at the girl. She seemed exactly the type of young woman that one usually found at Miss Allen’s.