XXIII.  THE MESSAGE OF THE VIOLIN
XXIV.  THE PARTING OF THE WAYS 

CHAPTER I 

A PUZZLING RESEMBLANCE 

"Oakdale won't seem like the same place.  What shall we do without
you?" exclaimed Grace Harlowe mournfully. 

It was a sunny afternoon in early October, and Grace Harlowe with
her three chums, Anne Pierson, Nora O'Malley and Jessica Bright,
stood grouped around three young men on the station platform at
Oakdale.  For Hippy Wingate, Reddy Brooks and David Nesbit were
leaving that afternoon to begin a four years' course in an eastern
college, and a number of relatives and friends had gathered to
wish them godspeed. 

Those who have read "GRACE HARLOWE'S PLEBE YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOL"
need no introduction to these three young men or to the girl