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"Are you coming, Dorothy?" called Janet May from the end of the passage.Dorothy turned with her companion; they walked along the wide gravel sweep, then entered a narrow path which wound gradually up-hill. They soon reached a rural tower, which was called by the girls "The Lookout," mounted some steep steps, and found[Pg 4] themselves standing on a little platform, where two other girls were waiting to receive them.

"Will you have some fruit?" she said coldly, laying[Pg 14] a restraining hand as she spoke on the girl's beflowered and embroidered dress.

"Yes, my dear, what is it?"

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All this time Miss Percival, the head girl of the school, was absent. She had been ill, and had gone home for a short change. She did not return until Bridget had been at the Court a fortnight."O Dolly," they exclaimed, running up to their favorite, "she has come—we have seen her! She is very tall, and—and——"

Bridget O'Hara's clear blue eyes were opened a little, wider apart."Miss Collingwood," said Marshall, in a timid whisper, "might I say a word to you, miss?""He will expect you to stay until the end of the term."

A fashionable watering-place called Eastcliff was situated about a mile from Mulberry Court, the old-fashioned house, with the old-world gardens, where the schoolgirls lived. There were about fifty of them in all, and they had to confess that although Mulberry Court was undoubtedly school, yet those who lived in the house and played in the gardens, and had merry games and races on the seashore, enjoyed a specially good time which they would be glad to think of by and by.