"Lift the chorus, speed it onward,
Loud her praises tell!"
"Let's join them." Suddenly Claire caught a hand of each. "Girls, think of it—what it means—it's the last time—it's all over!" Her pretty face was tragic.
Big Anne, with a vision of Russia in her heart, set her lips resolutely.
"Don't look back—look ahead!" she cried, grandly.
But in Nancy's mind as, her arms linked with her chums', she hurried off to join the other Seniors in their last sing, the troubling question echoed: "To what?"
CHAPTER II
WEBB
A clatter of departing hoofs, a swirl of dust—and Nancy was left alone on the hot railroad platform of North Hero. Her heart had seemed to fix itself in one painful lump in her throat. She was so very, very close to facing her adventure!
"If you please, can you tell me in what way I can reach Freedom?" Her faltering voice halted the telegraph operator as he was about to turn the corner of the station.