Little Paul and
Dodo I have already mentioned. Grace--the "Gibson girl," as she was
often called, had a peculiar longing for sweets, and not being stinted
as to pocket money--her father being a wealthy lawyer--she indulged her
taste rather too much, so some of her friends thought.
There was a mystery about poor Amy Stonington, for the details of which
I must refer my readers to the first book. Sufficient to say that since
a baby she had been cared for by her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John
Stonington. Amy had lived in the West, and had been rescued from a
great flood when an infant. What became of her parents, or her brothers
or sisters--if she had any--no one seemed able to say. In a way this
mystery embittered Amy's life, but she was of too sweet and good a
disposition to allow it to make a difference with her friends.
The four girls had been chums since grammar school days, being now High
School students. In addition to the "inseparables," as they were often
called, my former readers will recall Will Ford, the brother of Grace;
his chum, Frank Haley, and another friend, Allen Washburn, now a young
lawyer, with whom Betty--but there, why should I give away Betty's
little secret?
Quite in contrast to these boys was Percy Falconer, a rather foppish
lad, who greatly admired Betty--as who did not? But as for Percy--Betty
did not care for him in the least.
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