David received a telegram from Arnold Evans yesterday.
He is expected to-night on the six o'clock train.

Miriam doesn't know that, either.

She thinks he was unable to come, and won't she be surprised when he appears to escort her to our house ?" Grace laughed gleefully in anticipation of Miriam's astonishment at sight of Arnold Evans, who was always a welcome addition to their little company.
Two immeasurably happy days had passed since the train from the east had steamed away from Oakdale, leaving three eager girls on the platform of the station.

The evening train had brought Eva Allen, Marian Barber, Jessica Bright and Nora O'Malley.

Grace, Miriam and Anne, accompanied by a slender, brown-eyed young woman, whom they addressed as Mabel, had met the train.