CHAPTER XXXI
A MEETING OF THE BOARD
“Jean is gone!”
It was Dorothy who gave this news to Tavia.
“Gone where?”
“Gone home!”
“So early?”
“Gone, not to come back? Poor Jean!”
“Don’t cry over it. Likely she was glad to get away from the work,” said Tavia, although she knew that something unexpected must have happened.
“She left a note for me and said I might read it to you,” Dorothy continued. “In fact she said she would be glad if I would tell all the girls that she--had done--foolish things--through jealousy. But, of course, I won’t. She seems to be heartbroken.”
A messenger appeared at the open door. It was the boy from the post-office, and he held in his hand a special delivery letter for Dorothy. This interrupted the story of Jean.
Dorothy opened it nervously. She had been hoping for good news that might come before the courts closed for the holidays.
Tavia watched her closely as she read. Then she saw the change in her expression, and there was scarcely need to tell her that the good news had come.
“Oh Tavia! It is all right! Father has recovered all his money! And--what do you think? It was Jean’s uncle who was at fault! He had committed a forgery, and was keeping the funds for his own use! That is why Jean left!”
Both girls were speechless with excitement after this startling information was realized. It was Dorothy who spoke first.
“I am so sorry for her,” she said. “Think, if it had been _father_ who lost all!”
“But your father would not commit a forgery,” said Tavia, in her own way.
“Yes, but neither did Jean,” objected Dorothy.
“Well, at any rate, let us be glad,” insisted Tavia. “Here is the first act,” and she tried to do a tom-boyish somersault over Dorothy’s hat box.
Then there was a rush through the hall. It meant that the girls were coming to Room Nineteen. The rush continued until Dorothy was placed on the floor, and Cologne occupied her chair while Tavia had been, not too carefully, lifted to the top of the chiffonier, from which all things had previously been removed.
The “T’s” were there as well as the Glens, but Cologne was “spokesman.”
“We have come----” she began.
“You don’t say,” interrupted Tavia.
“For that you shall be gagged--if you do it again,” threatened Cologne.
Molly Richards, or Dick as we know her, fell off the upturned jardiniere upon which she had been vainly trying to balance herself.
“This is awful,” said the chairman, “and I may have to postpone----”
“Never!” came a shout. “We came for a full meeting of the board, and we demand it.”
“Then let the Tarters elsewhere speak first. They are our--visitors,” decided Cologne.
Cecilia Reynolds was not as merry as the others, but she had come to do her part, and was determined not to flinch.
“Well,” she began, “we feel we made a mistake in having a club opposed to the Glens.”
“Splendid feeling,” put in Tavia again. “Hurray!”
“And we did--some things--that now we see were not as funny--as we thought they might be,” went on Cecilia, with an effort. “We voted, at a meeting, to have Dorothy’s story of the lunch wagon published. We did not think it would amount to so much, and we decided that the smallest member--the one least to be suspected, should take the picture off Tavia’s bureau. Zada was the smallest.”
Tavia could not stand this. She jumped up, and although she was only joking now, since all things had turned out so well, she did throw a scrap basket at Cecilia. It hit another member of the Tarters, Nell Dean, and when the latter tossed it back it landed nicely over Tavia’s head, and extinguished her, for which all were thankful.
“Then Jean,” went on Cecilia, “thought we could get ahead of the older members, and we tried all sorts of tricks to do so.”
“We will not talk of those absent,” said Cologne, kindly. “Let us hear from the Glens. Tavia and Ned, where were you the night of the fortune telling racket?”
Tavia stretched out her hands in mock entreaty.
“Oh spare me!” she gasped. “Spare me the shame of my bare foot.”
“Tell us,” demanded Cologne.
“Help, Ned!” begged Tavia.
“No, we have questioned you,” insisted the chairman.
“Well, then, I will tell the story of the mystery of the crystal ball,” said Tavia, making her way to the center of the group, and knocking over a few girls who were squatted on the floor in doing so. “That night we, Ned and I, heard of the fortune-telling scheme. So we made up our minds we would have her tell the truth for once. We hurried off, and gave the old lady a dollar. Ned chipped in, though I had to take it from her, and we gave her all the information she needed. We had the girls marked so she could easily tell them apart, and we, Ned and I, had the delightful, pleasurable excitement, of listening at the broken window, while the old lady fulfilled her contract. Then, when we were scurrying home, I slipped----”
The uproar that followed this confession could only be described as a human earthquake. Dorothy was supposed to have known of the fraud, although she did not, and she was not spared in the efforts of the fooled ones, those who had paid money to have their fortunes told--by Tavia!
“But we had a good time,” said Ned, timidly, when some of the excitement had subsided.
“Anything else?” asked Cologne. “Remember we are consolidating now--no more secrets?”
“Yes. I know how that man knew about Jean having her check,” said Nita Brant. “The old fortune teller used to wait for Jean and that day she had seen her go to the post-office, and get the letter. She kept Jean talking on her way back until the man got farther up in the woods, to wait for her. Jake got her purse back yesterday from a place where the Shebad woman had pawned it. And we learned, too, that Jean purposely dropped that scrap of paper near Dorothy’s door to worry her.”
This was nothing to laugh at. And the bright faces turned serious.
“Now, Dorothy,” and Cologne looked into the blue eyes of her friend, “you have a letter to read to us.”
Dorothy had not yet read Jean’s note, and she objected to doing so first in public.
“But Jean left a note to me saying she insisted on her letter being read,” went on Cologne.
Then Dorothy was compelled to yield.
Everyone sat up quietly while the message from Jean, like a sad note from another world, was read.
Dorothy began:
“_My Dear Companions_:
“I am going away. I can no longer be a pupil of any boarding school, and I deeply regret that I made such poor use of my time while I had the chance to do better. While I had plenty of money I felt no responsibility, but since my uncle’s failure, and the showing to me of his true character, I feel more like a woman than a girl. I want to apologize for any disturbance I made at Glenwood, particularly to Dorothy Dale, whom I thought it was sport to distress. It is I, and not Dorothy, who will now have to go out into the world to work. But perhaps in that I may be able to give up the nonsense I have been lately plunged into, and in which, my own dear mother never took part. I could say much more but take this message and--good-bye.
“JEAN.”
There was not a dry eye when Dorothy ceased. The coming of Mrs. Pangborn saved them from actual weeping.
“Young ladies,” she said, “I have a surprise for you. I guessed in which room I would find you. I have received a letter from Major Dale, Dorothy’s father, sending me a check with which to give you all a merry time before parting. As the snow is so beautiful to-day I thought you might like a full, school sleigh ride. So I have hired some vehicles, and----”
“Hurrah! Hurra! Hurroo!” shouted the girls, forgetting all dignity in face of such a treat.
And on the hills of Glenwood, in three big sleighs, with Jake leading in the _Glenwood_, its plumes flying, let us leave our friends, to meet them again, in another volume, to be called, “Dorothy Dale in the City.”
“Well, ‘all is well that ends well,’” murmured Tavia, as they flew along the snowy road, the sleighbells jingling merrily.
“Yes, and I am glad of it,” answered Dorothy. “But poor Jean, I am so sorry for her!”
“We all are,” came from Edna.
Then came a burst of song from the sleigh ahead. And with that song we will say good-bye.
THE END
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Transcriber’s Note:
Variations in hyphenated words have been retained as they appear in the original publication. Punctuation has been standardised. Other changes to the original publication are as follows:
Page 3 I would’t wear one like it _changed to_ I wouldn’t wear one like it
and the very thinest silk _changed to_ and the very thinnest silk
Page 6 favorite with her acquaintences _changed to_ favorite with her acquaintances
Page 14 Tavia had inadvertantly poured _changed to_ Tavia had inadvertently poured
Page 21 be worse off that Amy _changed to_ be worse off than Amy
Page 45 in a gorgeous red kimona _changed to_ in a gorgeous red kimono
Page 47 flash of that fire-alarm kimona _changed to_ flash of that fire-alarm kimono
Page 48 under the irridescent blades of light _changed to_ under the iridescent blades of light
Page 55 Dorothy lauged frankly _changed to_ Dorothy laughed frankly
Page 84 absurb comparison brought forth _changed to_ absurd comparison brought forth
Page 86 stranger, named Cecilia Reynold _changed to_ stranger, named Cecilia Reynolds
skirt was was torn from her _changed to_ skirt was torn from her
Page 95 suspicous whispering at lunch time _changed to_ suspicious whispering at lunch time
Page 114 Be assurred if I am hauled _changed to_ Be assured if I am hauled
Page 115 with that remarks echoing _changed to_ with that remark echoing
Page 119 I shall turn somnabulist _changed to_ I shall turn somnambulist
Page 143 Jake assurred them _changed to_ Jake assured them
Page 146 I known Cologne and Annette are _changed to_ I know Cologne and Annette are
Page 183 she enterd the classroom _changed to_ she entered the classroom
Page 185 in the white haired woman _changed to_ in the white-haired woman
Page 189 and such varities of outdoor life _changed to_ and such varieties of outdoor life
Page 190 instruct the class on varities of _changed to_ instruct the class on varieties of
Page 193 said Miss Cumming calmly _changed to_ said Miss Cummings calmly
Page 209 She was somewhat supertitious _changed to_ She was somewhat superstitious
Page 211 be interferred with by a giggling _changed to_ be interfered with by a giggling
Page 212 he replied camly _changed to_ he replied calmly
Page 221 or direct infringment of the rules _changed to_ or direct infringement of the rules
Page 235 the upturned jardinere upon which _changed to_ the upturned jardiniere upon which
Page 235 let the Tartars speak first _changed to_ let the Tarters speak first
Page 236 another member of the Tartars _changed to_ another member of the Tarters
Page 239 saved them for actual weeping _changed to_ saved them from actual weeping
Book catalogue, page 3 RUTH FIELDING AT BRIARWOODHALL _changed to_ RUTH FIELDING AT BRIARWOOD HALL
End of Project Gutenberg's Dorothy Dale's School Rivals, by Margaret Penrose