"I bet I seen those
two. They didn't call each other 'Sallie' and 'Celia'; but they had some
fancy names--I forgot what."
"Oh! are you _sure_?" cried Bess.
"They had them photographs just like you say. They showed 'em to me. You
see," said the little girl, "I showed 'em where they could eat cheap, and
they told me how they was going to join a movie company."
CHAPTER XIV
THE FIRST CLUE
Nan and her chum were wildly excited. During their brief stay at
Tillbury over Christmas they had been so busy, at home and abroad, that
they had not thought much about Sallie Morton and Celia Snubbins, the
two runaways.
In Nan's case, not having seen her mother for ten months, she did not--at
the last moment--even desire to come away from her and visit her school
friends in Chicago.
There really was so much to say, so much to learn about Scotland and the
beautiful old Emberon Castle and the village about it, and about the
queer people Mrs. Sherwood had met, too! Oh! Nan hoped that she would
see the place in time--the "Cradle of the Blake Clan," as Mr. Sherwood
called it.
There had been presents, of course, and in the giving and accepting of
these Nan had found much pleasure and excitement--especially when she
found a box of beautiful new clothes for her big doll, all made in
Scotland by "Momsey," who knew just how precious Beautiful Beulah was in
her daughter's eyes.
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