sing her head. "But I guess nobody
knows the rights of it. Maybe it isn't so much. You know that there were
other heirs who turned up when Nan's father and mother got over to
Scotland, and one while Nan thought she would have to leave school
because there wasn't money enough to pay her tuition fees."

"Yes, I know all about that," admitted Cora, hurriedly. She had a vivid
remembrance of the unfinished letter from Nan to her mother, which she
had found and shown to Linda. Cora was not proud of that act. Nan had
never been anything but kind to her and secretly Cora did not believe
this ill-natured history of Nan Sherwood that Linda repeated.

Those of my readers who have read the first volume of this series,
entitled "Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp, Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret,"
will realize just how much truth and how much fiction entered into the
story of Nan's affairs related by the ill-natured Linda Riggs.

When Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood started for Scotland to make sure of the
wonderful legacy willed to Nan's mother by the Laird of Emberon's
steward, Nan was sent up into the Peninsula of Michigan to stay with her
Uncle Henry and Aunt Kate Sherwood at a lumber camp. Her adventures
there during the spring and summer were quite exciting. But the most
exciting thing that had happened to Nan Sherwood was the decision on her
parents' part that she should go with her chum, Bess Harley, to Lakeview
Hall, a beautifully situated and popular school for girls on the shore
of Lake Huron.

In "Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall, Or, The Mystery of the Haunted
Boathouse," the second volume of the series, were narrated the incidents
of Nan's first term at boarding school. She and Bess made many friends
and had some rivals, as was natural, for they were very human girls, in
whom no angelic quality was over-developed.

In Linda Riggs, daughter of the rich and influential railroad president,
Nan had an especially vindictive enemy. Nan had noticed Linda's eagerness
to hear all the ill-natured fat man had to say about Mr. Sherwood.

"I do wish Linda had not heard that horrid man speak so of Papa
Sherwood," Nan said to Bess Harley, as they toiled up the hill again
after the overturning of the _Sky-rocket_.

"Oh, what do you care about Linda?" responded Bess.

"I care very much about what people say of my father," Nan said. "And the
minute I get home I'm going to find out what that Bulson meant."

CHAPTER III

AN ADVENTURE ON THE RAI