hood of Central High mostly of that comfortable residential quality that is the charm of most old to

he surrounding flatland where the business section of the city had originally been

easterly end of the lake the waters flowed out through Rolling River at Keyport. These smaller cities each supporte

and Keyport that the Girls' Branches had been organized in the high schools of those towns with great enthusiasm

heart of the city, lay several fine estates. The city was slowly condemning some of these and turning them into public parks and playgrounds. Here the three high s

he lake and to Cavern Island, in its center. Cavern Island was an immensely popular picnic ground, and in the summer season excursi

Almost all the houses on the street had lawns and well-kept gardens. Henry Grimes's house-much more ornate an

usk. They had already gathered most of the girls selected for initiation, and quit

hen approached the Belding house. Laura was on the porch, eager enough; she had noticed ere they arrived, however, an unaccountable gather

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dults who leaned upon the gates, or sat on the porches of the houses it passed. At th

he head of the M. O. R. candidates reached the gate. But the procession kept right on.

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