“You are not in the least to blame, Mary. No matter how we watched her, she could get away if she wanted to. Well, I hope she takes care of herself.”
“She spoke right smart to me last night,” went on Mary. “She talked of how good you had been to her, and she said she would make it right some day. It’s a pity she has no one to guide her.”
As Dorothy said, the folks were disappointed when they heard of the runaway, but Mrs. White made the best of the affair by declaring that it was better for the girl to go away as she had done, than to have made some trouble at the school—perhaps induced other girls to run off with her.
That afternoon Ned and Nat left for Cadet Hall, and early the next morning Dorothy and Tavia started off for Glenwood. Little did the girls dream of under what peculiar circumstances they were to meet Urania again.
CHAPTER IX
MIETTE
“Oh, have you seen her!” exclaimed Rose-Mary Markin.
“Sweet Ever-lean-er!” chimed in Edna Black.
“What’s so interesting about her?” asked little Nita Brandt, in her most sarcastic tone.
“Why, don’t you know?” went on Edna, familiarly called Ned Ebony.