Marjorie Dean, High School Junior

"Be sure not to pack your white lace dress, Lieutenant." Marjorie delivered this reminder from the open doorway of the pretty blue room which Mary had so long regarded as her ow...

Jerry had a great deal to say. She was so justly wrathful she very nearly cried. "It's the worst thing I ever heard of," she sputtered. "I wish we'd never revived that old opere...

Jerry measured her with a calculating eye. "You don't want to tell me, do you?" was her blunt question. "All right. Forget it. Anyway, we missed you. You're a mysterious person....

As Ellen Seymour had predicted, basket ball did not receive its quietus. But no one ever knew what passed between Miss Archer and Miss Davis. The principal also held a long sess...

"I'm ready to go to school, Captain!" Marjorie Dean popped her curly head into the living room. "Is the note ready, too? It's simply dear in you to give me a chance to call on M...

"What did I tell you yesterday?" saluted Jerry Macy, the instant she found opportunity to address Irma Linton the next morning. "Marjorie's sick. Her mother telephoned me before...

A chorus of ohs and ahs ascended as the guests filed into a dining room, the decoration of which spelled Patriotism in large capitals. In honor of the pretty soldier play to whi...

"See here, Jerry, can't something be done to keep that Miss Farnham from completely upsetting the cast?" Laurie Armitage's fine face was dark with disapproval as he halted Jerry...

The end of the week following Thanksgiving brought the two temporarily disabled sophomore basket ball players back to school. The day after their return a notice appeared on the...

Everybody knows the trite saying: "It never rains but that it pours." The disasters of the following week seemed quite in accord with it. Muriel's spectacular slide down the ice...

"Only to think, next week, at this time, I'll be saying good-bye to you, Mary Raymond." Marjorie Dean's brown eyes rested very wistfully on the sunny-haired girl beside her in t...

Marjorie's confidential talk with her Captain brought to her a renewal of faith in herself, which carried her along serenely through various small difficulties which continually...

Marjorie returned to school that afternoon in a most perturbed state of mind, occasioned by Jerry Macy's identification of Rowena Farnham as the girl whom she had assisted in th...

"Marjorie Dean, you are true blue!" exclaimed Muriel. "Whatever possessed me to write that awful note? If Miss Merton had read it--well, you can guess what would have happened....

"And we can have the party in her room? Oh, fine! You're awfully dear, Mrs. Dean. We'll be there at two this afternoon. Good-bye." Jerry Macy hung up the telephone receiver and...

As Jerry had guessed, Constance Stevens' absence from school was due to the fact that her foster-father had descended upon Gray Gables for a brief visit. He was delighted to see...

"THIS is a nice state of affairs," scolded Jerry Macy. "What do you suppose has happened, Marjorie?" Overtaking her friend in the corridor on the way from recitation, Jerry's lo...

Marjorie could never quite recall the details of that dreadful walk home. Only once before in her short life had she been so utterly crushed. That was on the day she had rushed...

Outside the school building Jerry Macy and Irma Linton were holding a patient vigil. Not permitted to witness the try-out they had declared their intention of waiting across the...

"I've something to report, Captain." Marjorie entered her mother's room and dropped dispiritedly at her feet. Unpinning her flower-decked hat, she removed it with a jerk and let...

Absorbed in a vain attempt to find a clue to the mysterious prophesier of evil, Marjorie forgot Mary Raymond's letter until she happened to thrust a hand into her coat pocket on...

On reaching home that noon Marjorie's first impulse was to hurry to her mother with a recital of the morning's events. Greatly to her dismay, Delia met her at the door with the...

Left to herself for a brief respite, Marjorie drew out the note and read it. An expression of amused consternation flashed into her eyes as she took in its spirit. Knowing the w...

Two spots of angry color appeared high up on Miss Davis's lean face as she viewed the waiting six. It came to her that she was in for a lively scene. Setting her mouth firmly, s...

Three days later Marjorie's theory seemed destined to prove itself correct. Ellen Seymour came to her, wrath in her eye. "See here, Marjorie," she burst forth impulsively, "if M...

"Oh, I know where they are." Jubilantly overturning the contents of her mother's sewing basket, she triumphantly drew them forth. Without bothering to remove her wraps she plump...

THE Sanford performance of "The Rebellious Princess" took place on Friday evening. Late the following afternoon the illustrious cast were conveyed by train or motor to Riverview...