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Billie Bradley and the School Mystery: or, The Girl From Oklahoma
Billie Bradley and the School Mystery; Or, The Girl From Oklahoma
CHAPTER I
AT LAKE MOLATA
“My, but it’s good to get back!”
The statement came from Billie Bradley. She gazed upon the ivy-covered towers of the boarding school with genuine affection.
Three Towers Hall was an impressive building, set amidst gracious, well-tended lawns on the borders of one of the prettiest and most picturesque lakes in that part of the country. From its gates students flocked in gay anticipation of vacation and good times at the end of the spring term, to return, more soberly, but with a refreshed and brightened outlook, to take up their studies at the beginning of the fall semester.
Such a time had come again to Billie Bradley and her two close chums, Violet Farrington and Laura Jordon. After a particularly interesting and adventure-filled summer, they had returned to their beloved seat of learning, eager for work and with renewed and heightened ideals.
Now they stood on the borders of the lake, looking toward Three Towers Hall through a lane of trees that made flickering shadows on the lawn. Idly, they speculated on the future.
“I’d feel better,” observed Vi, “if I hadn’t that condition in math to make up. It worries me.”
“It would,” agreed Laura. “I mean, it would have worried me so much that if it had been my condition, I’d have made it up during the summer instead of waiting until fall, when goodness knows the work is hard enough, anyway.”
“It’s easy enough for you to criticize,” said Vi, a shade resentfully. “You take all your studies at a run, while all I can do is to hobble.”
“Of course, not everyone can have a brain like mine,” murmured Laura, with a mischievous grin.
“Besides, what time have I had this summer for study?” Vi persisted. “Between treasure hunts and mysteries and such things, I’ve had my hands full.”