"Oh, I tell you, Carol, Experience may teach in a very expensive school, but she makes the lessons so interesting, it is really worth the price.
"Lots of love to you both,
"From
"CONNIE."
CHAPTER XII
THE LAND O' LUNGERS
"Is Mrs. Duke in?"
David looked up quickly as the door opened. He saw a fair petulant face, with pouting lips, with discontent in the dark eyes. He did not know that face. Yet this girl had not the studied cheerfulness of manner that marks church callers at sanatoriums. She did not look sick, only cross. Oh, it was the new girl, of course. Carol had said she was coming. And she was not really sick, just threatened.
"Mrs. Duke is over at the Main Building, but will be back very soon. Will you come in and wait?"