CHAPTER XV A DARE

Monday morning, Mr. Ashe left for the West; and the next day, the new term began.

"It'll seem odd, not going to Miss Rankin's room," Blue Bonnet said, overtaking Debby on the way to school. "I wonder if she'll miss us."

"Some of us," Debby suggested.

"Alec says, Miss Fellows is ever so jolly."

"She hasn't been at it so l