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Four days before Christmas Dorothy Dale, her cousins, and Tavia all boarded the train with Jennie Hapgood, bound for the latter's home in Pennsylvania. On Christmas Eve Jennie's brother Jack was to be married, and he had written jointly with the young lady who was to be "Mrs. Jack" after that date, that the ceremony could not possibly take place unless the North Birchland crowd of young folk crossed the better part of two states, to be "in at the finish."
"Goodness me," drawled Tavia, when this letter had come from Sunnyside Farm. "He talks as though wedded bliss were something like a sentence to the penitentiary. How horrid!"