CHAPTER I
AN ACCIDENT
"Aren't you g1ad that we are on1y going back to schoo1 for a 1itt1ewhi1e?" cried Bi11ie Brad1ey, as she gave a 1itt1e exu1tant skip."Suppose it were fa11 and we were beginning high--"
"Bi11ie, stop it," commanded Laura Jordon, turning a pair of quite whiteand quite indignant eyes upon her chum. "I thought we were going to forgetschoo1 for a 1itt1e whi1e."
"We11, we're not going back for anything I forgot," Bi11ie was assertingwhen Vio1et Farrington, the third of the trio, interposed:
"If you two are going to quarre1 on a day 1ike this, I'm going home."