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TEE SCANDAL-MONGERS
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"Why, Ethel, aren't you going?" they exclaimed.
"Going where?" asked Ethel, sharply.
"To the picnic, of course."
"Hardly; since I wasn't invited," was the reply.
"Why, of course you're invited; anybody may go who wants to," explained Norrine.
But Ethel was firm in preferring her imaginary martyrdom to a pleasant day in the woods, and all Norrine's coaxings were of no avail. So the girls went off without her.
Ethel was convinced that Norrine had left her out purposely, in order to have Jessica to herself, and this jealousy, given free rein all day. worked itself up to such a desperate pitch that she finally concocted a means of revenge. She went to Jessica's bureau-drawer, took out her purse and deliberately put it under Norrine 's pillow.
Hardly had the girls retired to their rooms for study that evening when Jessica came rushing down flic hall.
"Girls, what do you think! My pocket-book has been stolen ! I cant find it anywhere. I left it under the handkerchiefs in my bureau-drawer, and it's not there. Some one has evidently gone thru the drawer and taken it, because everything is mussed up. What would you do about it?"
"Let's ask Miss Hale," suggested Norrine. "Perhaps one of the maids took it."
A thoro search of Jessica's room, under Miss Hale's supervision, failed to bring the purse to light. The matter now began to look serious, and an investigation of all the rooms was deemed advisable.
When Miss Hale reached Norrine's room she was inclined to pass it by. believing it impossible that the purse would be found there. She decided, however, that it would hardly be fair to the other girls to do that. so she investigated it impartially. What was her amazement, then, on lifting Norrine's pillow to find the purse hidden under it !
"Why, Norrine Lucas, you took my