CATHALINA AT GREYCLIFF [Illustration: Cathalina carefully turned the boat and started shoreward. Lilian, who had her guitar, strummed a few chords.] CATHALINA AT GREYCLIFF By HARRIET PYNE GROVE Author of “The Girls of Greycliff,” “The Greycliff Girls in Camp,” “Greycliff Heroines,” “Greycliff Wings.” A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York THE GREYCLIFF GIRLS SERIES A Series of Stories for Girls By HARRIET PYNE GROVE CATHALINA AT GREYCLIFF THE GIRLS OF GREYCLIFF THE GREYCLIFF GIRLS IN CAMP GREYCLIFF HEROINES GREYCLIFF WINGS Copyright, 1923 By A. L. BURT COMPANY CATHALINA AT GREYCLIFF Made in “U. S. A.” FOREWORD In these chapters the author has used her own family names, to which she fancies she has a right. There are, however, some changes; it was, for instance, a Katherine Knickerbocker who married a Van Buskirk. The “Aunt Katherine” of the story is really the author’s grandmother, Harriet Cathalina Van Buskirk, a granddaughter of the original Martin Van Buskirk. She taught in the Emma Willard school at Troy, New York, and married William Lee, nephew of Madam Willard and son of her oldest sister, Mary Hart. To present a happy, normal school life and real girls in the midst of life’s most delightful opportunities is the object of this series. CATHALINA AT GREYCLIFF CHAPTER I CATHALINA VAN BUSKIRK The maid was doing Cathalina Van Buskirk’s sunny brown hair. “Do it up high, Etta; it is so hot today! I hope Mother will decide to go to the mountains soon!” “Just as soon as your brother comes home, Miss Cathalina. I heard her say so yesterday.” “Last year he met us there!” Cathalina replied, somewhat fretfully. “Yes, but he is not going back next Fall, you know, and there’s all his things to come here. And then your mother said that she isn’t sure where she will go until she sees him and finds out what he needs and where he wants to go.”