Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1923, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
IMixed Baggage[1]
IITelling Trixy[15]
IIIMeet Maggie[25]
IVThe Talisman[36]
VJack’s Sudden Departure[48]
VISmoldering Fires[57]
VIIBroncho Billy[70]
VIIIAlmost a Tragedy[81]
IXFrom Icy Waters[97]
XJack’s Story[109]
XIA New Angle[124]
XIIA Tribute[136]
XIIISerious School Work[147]
XIVBalked Ambition[159]
XVSteppy and the Clue[171]
XVIAt the Rookery Tea Room[186]
XVIIThe Sacrifice[198]
XVIIISay It with Popcorn[210]
XIXGems and Moss Agate[223]
XXThe Lure of Boarding School[233]

GLORIA
AT BOARDING SCHOOL

CHAPTER I
MIXED BAGGAGE

The dark haired girl, sitting on the cretonne couch, chuckled.

“So this is boarding school!”

No one heard her, the little clock on the corner shelf ticked away and never “let on,” for new girls coming to that room were no novelty to the clock. They came and went yearly, sometimes oftener, and what difference did it make that this one chuckled? Those who sighed, or even those who wept, always got over it in time. No doubt the dark haired girl would get over her rather cynical defiance of Miss Alton’s rules for lady-like deportment. Also, she might in time learn to sit on a chair properly.