Recently added books

Jane Allen: Right Guard

Creator: Bancroft, Edith
Translator: -
Contributor: -
Editor: -


Brand new books:


been talking at cross purposes. You say that I gave up my room of my own accord. You mention a letter I wrote you. I have _not_ given up my room. I have _never_ written you a letter. You owe me an explanation. No matter how unpleasant it may be, I am not afraid to listen to it." "Very well," was the icy response. "Since you insist I will say plainly that it appears, even after writing me a most discourteous letter, you must have decided, for reasons of your own, to ignore this fact and return to Madison Hall. Not reckoning that your room would naturally be assigned to another girl so soon, you were bold enough to come here and attempt to carry your point with a high hand. I am quite sure you now understand me." "I do not," came the vehement denial. "I repeat that I never wrote you a letter. If you received one signed by me, it was certainly not I who wrote it. I am not surprised at your unfair opinion of me. You have never liked me. Naturally you could not understand me. I will ask you to let me see the letter." Mrs. Weatherbee's reply was not made in words. Reaching into a pigeon-hole of her desk she took from it a folded letter minus its envelope and handed it to Jane. Her head in a whirl, Jane unfolded it and read:
The Duchesse De Langeais

To Franz Liszt In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigor of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true. Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Europe for that matter, was either destroyed or disorganized by the outbreak of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars; but as this island was protected through those times by the English fleet, its wealthy convent and peaceable inhabitants were secure from the general trouble and spoliation. The storms of many kinds which shook the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century spent their force before they reached those cliffs at so short a distance from the coast of Andalusia. If the rumour of the Emperor's name so much as reached the shore of the island, it is doubtful whether the holy women kneeling in
"MRS. ELLEN WEATHERBEE, "Madison Hall, "Wellington Campus. "Dear Madam: "Although I regret leaving Madison Hall, it would be highly disagreeable to me to spend my sophomore year in it with you as matron. Your treatment of me last year was such that I should not like to court a second repetition of it. Therefore I am writing to inform you that I shall not return to the Hall. "Yours truly, "JANE ALLEN." CHAPTER V THE UNKNOWN MISCHIEF MAKER "This is too dreadful!"