Jean Katherine Baird. Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall
CHAPTER I. PREPARATIONS FOR SCHOOL
CHAPTER II. THE JOURNEY
CHAPTER III. THE DINNER EPISODE
CHAPTER IV. THE RECEPTION
CHAPTER V. A BOX FROM HOME
CHAPTER VI. HOW “SMILES” WAS SCALPED
CHAPTER VII. DEFYING THE POWERS
CHAPTER VIII. MIDNIGHT CONFIDENCES
CHAPTER IX. JOE’S MESSAGE
CHAPTER X. CLOUDS AND GATHERING STORMS
CHAPTER XI. THE PROUD, HUMBLED
CHAPTER XII. THE SENIORS OUTWITTED
CHAPTER XIII. IMPRISONMENT
CHAPTER XIV. RETALIATION
CHAPTER XV. VICTORY
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Only accommodation trains ran between Bitumen and Exeter. Elizabeth found herself in a motley crowd of passengers. To her right sat a shabbily dressed mother with a sick baby in her arms; back of her was a plain little woman of middle age dressed in a gingham suit and rough straw hat; while before her sat two young women, perhaps a year or two older than herself. They talked loudly enough to attract the attention of those about them. Elizabeth learned that the larger was named Landis, and her companion “Min.”
They were handsomely though showily dressed. Min seemed to be less self-assertive than her companion. Landis evidently had confidence enough for two. She frequently turned to look around, gazing into the faces of her fellow passengers with a self-assurance that in one of her age amounted almost to boldness.
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“Yes’m. Oh, thank you! It will be kind of you, I’m sure, for walkin’ with two babies in your arms ain’t very pleasant. Do you live in Gleasonton, ma’am?”
“I’m not living there now. All summer I have been out on the Creighton farm beyond Keating.”
