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Grace Harlowe’s Fourth Year at Overton College

CHAPTER XX
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All you girls are screaming successes.
But who is 'Peter Rabbit' ?" "I don't know, but I'm going to find out," declared Elfreda.

"He, or rather she, carried a package of little cards with a cunning rabbit's head and the name 'Peter Rabbit' on them.

I have one here." "So have I," came from every member of the group.
"Let us find the famous Peter, then offer our congratulations," proposed Patience, with a searching glance at the company.
But the "famous Peter" was not to be found among the throng of gayly attired girls, and there was no little comment among them at his sudden and complete disappearance.
"I wonder what became of 'Peter Rabbit' ?" remarked Anne, when, later in the evening, a number of Semper Fidelis girls gathered in one corner of the room to hold an informal session and compare notes.
"Who is 'Peter Rabbit'; or, the Mystery of the 'Blue Jacket' ?" declaimed Emma Dean.

"Even Sherlock is all at sea, aren't you, Brother Holmes ?" Emma Dean laid her hand familiarly on the great investigator's shoulder.
"Don't be too sure that I'm all at sea.

I have a theory." Elfreda put on a preternaturally wise expression.
"We'll hear it at once," returned Emma briskly.
"Not to-night.


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