Livingston indirect answers. She even
brought a tray to you to keep up the deception. Now do you realize what
that means to a girl like Harriet? The moment she gave a second thought to
what she had done she was horrified. There isn't a more unhappy girl in
the world than Harriet Burrell at this minute."
"Oh!" exclaimed Cora weakly.
"That isn't all. She knows more about you than this, even if this weren't
enough."
"What does she know?" demanded Miss Kidder with a violent start, the color
leaving her face suddenly.
"She knows you and Patricia were in that hazing affair. Then she knew
something worse than that. She knows that you were the one who spoiled the
consomme and lost the 'honor' bead for her."
Cora sat down heavily on the edge of the cot. Her eyes were wide with
terror.
"She--she knows?"
"Yes. And I shouldn't be surprised if she knew more. She isn't the girl to
tell all she knows. Now, what are you going to do about it, Cora Kidder?"
"Oh, I don't know," moaned the unhappy girl, burying her face in the
pillows, her shoulders rising and falling with her smothered sobs.
Jane watched her in silence. There was an expression of compassion in the
eyes of Crazy Jane. Finally she rose and stepped softly to the cot. Cora
was aroused by a gentle touch on her shoulder.
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