"What position?" innocently queried Ronny. "I was not aware that you and
Muriel----"
"The train has stopped. Didn't you know it?" was Marjorie's amused
interruption. "Stop squabbling and come along." She was already in the
aisle and impatient to be on the move. "Helen Trent is out on the
platform, Jeremiah. I just caught a glimpse of her. I hope Leila and
Vera are out there, too. Let me assist you into the aisle." Marjorie
playfully gripped Jerry's arm in a vain effort to draw her to her feet.
"Thank you. I can assist myself. I am not yet aged enough to require
your services. You may carry my suitcase, if you like. It's as heavy as
lead."
"Charmed, but unfortunately I have one to carry equally heavy," Marjorie
hastily declined. "I only offered to haul you up from the seat. My offer
didn't include luggage carrying."
"You are a fake." Jerry rose and prepared to follow Marjorie down the
aisle. As she went she peered anxiously out of the car windows for a
first glimpse of her particular friend, Helen Trent.
The eyes of the other four Lookouts were also turned eagerly toward the
station platform in search of their Hamilton friends.
A year had elapsed since first the Five Travelers, as the quintette of
Sanford girls had named themselves, had set foot in the Country of
College. Each was recalling now how very strangely she had felt on first
glimpsing Hamilton station with its bevy of laughing, chatting girls,
not one of whom they knew. Then they had been entering freshmen, with
everything to learn about college. Now they were sophomores, with a year
of college experience to their credit. What befell Marjorie Dean and her
four Lookout chums as freshmen at Hamilton College has already been
recounted in "Marjorie Dean, College Freshman."
"Hooray!" rejoiced Jerry, from the top step of the train, waving her
handbag, a magazine and a tennis racket, all of which she clutched in
her right hand. This vociferous greeting was for Helen, who was making
equally vociferous signals of jubilation at the descending travelers.
Marjorie had also caught sight of Leila Harper and Vera Mason, and was
waving them a welcome. Lucy's eyes were fixed on Katherine Langly, whom
she knew had come down to the station especially to meet her. Veronica
and Muriel were exchanging gay hand salutations with a group of
Silverton Hall girls prior to greeting them on the platform. An instant
and the Five Travelers were free of the train and surrounded.
"And is it yourself?" Leila Harper was hugging Marjorie in an excess of
true Irish affection. "Vera had a hunch this morning that you would be
here today. I said it was too early; that you wouldn't be here until the
first of next week. She would have it her way, so we drove down to meet
this train. Now I know she has the gifted eye and the seeing mind, as we
Irish say."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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