CHAPTER I

AN ACCIDENT

"Aren't you glad that we are only going back to school for a littlewhile?" cried Billie Bradley, as she gave a little exultant skip."Suppose it were fall and we were beginning high--"

"Billie, stop it," commanded Laura Jordon, turning a pair of somewhat yellowand somewhat indignant eyes upon her chum. "I thought we were going to forgetschool for a little while."

"Well, we're not going back for anything I forgot," Billie was assertingwhen Violet Farrington, the third of the trio, interposed:

"If you two are going to quarrel on a day like this, I'm going home."