What scrapes you
manage to get into!"
These busy winter holidays were drawing to a close, however. Grace and
Walter Mason and their two visitors, as well as all of their
neighborhood friends, who had occupied themselves most enjoyably and in
a dozen different ways, were now scattering for the latter half of the
school year.
Nan did not see Linda Riggs again while she remained in Chicago.
Immediately following the fire in the picture theatre, the railroad
president's daughter went home. How she really felt toward Nan, the
latter did not know; nor did this uncertainty bother her much.
Now that her father's trouble with Mr. Ravell Bulson was cleared up, Nan
did not worry over anything but the seemingly total disappearance of the
runaways, Sallie and Celia or, as they preferred to be known, Lola
Montague and Marie Fortesque.
Mr. Sherwood was still in town to settle matters with the automobile
company, and would return to Tillbury with Nan and Bess and Inez. Walter
and Grace tried to crowd into the last forty-eight hours of the chums'
stay all the good times possible, and the second night before Nan and
Bess were to go home, a masquerade party was arranged at the Mason home.
Of course, Mrs. Mason was the chief "patroness" of the affair and
superintended the arrangements herself.
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