"It would
be something new at 'The Moorings,' and such an excitement for every
one."
"I wish they would!"
"If I were a boarder I'd simply _make_ them! What they want is
somebody to keep them up to it. Day-girls are really very much hampered.
They haven't half a chance when they go home from school at four o'clock.
I really sometimes think I'd like to be a boarder, just for the fun of
it."
It is not very often we get what we want, but on this occasion Fortune
waved a fairy wand and gave Merle the luck she coveted. It happened that
the cook at Bridge House developed a sore throat, and Dr. Ramsay, having
his suspicions, had the drains examined and found them to be in an
exceedingly wrong condition. It was necessary to take them up at once,
and as the process would probably be unpleasant, Mrs. Ramsay arranged for
the girls to stay at 'The Moorings' until everything was once more in
good sanitary condition.
"You can't be too careful where young people are concerned," was her
motto.
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