Nor did she say anything more about
the lost doll. So the family had no idea how heartsore and
troubled the girl really was over the mystery.
It hurt her the more because she could talk to nobody about
Beulah. There was not a soul in whom she could confide. Had
Bess Harley been here at Pine Camp Nan felt that she could not
really expect sympathy from her chum at this time; for Bess
considered herself quite grown up and her own dolls were
relegated to the younger members of her family.
Nan could write to her chum, however, and did. She could write
to Momsey, and did that, too; not forgetting to tell her absent
parents about old Toby Vanderwiller, and his wife and his
grandson, and of their dilemma. If only Momsey's great fortune
came true, Nan was sure that Gedney Raffer would be paid off and
Toby would no longer have the threat of dispossession held over
him.
Nan Sherwood wrote, too, to Mr. Mangel, the principal of the
Tillbury High School, and told him about the collection the
crippled grandson of the old lumberman had made, mentioning those
specimens which had impressed her most. She had some hope that
the strange moth might be very valuable.
Nan was so busy writing letters, and helping Aunt Kate preserve
some early summer fruit, that she did not go far from the house
during the next few days, and so did not see even Margaret
Llewellen.
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