Part 6 (1/2)
THE FRECKLE-FACED GIRL
CHAPTER V
THE FRECKLE-FACED GIRL
Of the two young fellows hurrying in from the boulevard one was tall and slim and dark; the other was stocky--almost plu pond-blue eyes Burdwell Alling's eyes were truly the only handsome feature he possessed But he had a wonderfully sweet disposition
Darry Dreas one of those quiet, gentlemanly felloho seem rather too sober for their years Yet he possessed huh, and there certainly was no priround and A out of theabove:
”I say, fellows! Have you seen a couple of young ladies around here who have just finished their junior year at the New Melford High with flying colors? We expected to find theh and dry on the front porch, ready to receive co ”They have taken the highest degree in Prunes and Prisms and have been commended by their instructors for excellent deport all the calicos, they are supposed to take the bun as prudes”
Aain, and stuck out her tongue like an impudent urchin ”A pair of smarties,” she scoffed
”Co How dare you!”
”I declare! Is that Miss A a half dollar in his eye like aAmy for the first time
”It is not,” said A men”
But Darry had come to Jessie and shaken hands If she flushed self-consciously, it only ilad to see you, Jess,” the tall young fellow said
”It's nice to have you hoain then, in her usual harueneral How had the girls finished their high-school year? And how had the boysasked to leave for the good of the undergraduate body?
Was the _Marigold_ a real yacht, or just a row-boat with a kicker behind? And ere the girls doing in their present fetching costumes?
”The wires!” cried Burd ”Is it a trapeze? Are we to have a summer circus in Roselawn?”
”We shall have if you remain around here,” was Amy's saucy reply ”But yon is no trapeze, I'd have you know”
”A slack wire? Who walks it--you or Jess?”
”Aw, Burd!” ejaculated Darry ”It's radio Don't you recognize an aerial when you see it?”
”You have a fine ground connection,” scoffed Burd
”Don't you worry about us,” Jessie took heart to say ”We know just what to do Go upstairs again, Aot it untwisted”
A little later, when the aerial was secure and Jessie went practically to work affixing the ground connection, Darrington Drew said:
”Why, I believe you girls do knohat you are about”
”Don't you suppose we girls know anything at all, Darry?” demanded his sister from overhead ”You boys have very little on us”