But as luck
would have it, Mr. Hackett ran into a friend of theirs on Broadway, and
this friend began to tease Mr. Hackett about his daughter's being a
chorus girl!"
"A chorus girl!" Dundee echoed, taking care not to show his
disappointment.
"Of course they nabbed her right out of the show, but that wasn't the
worst of it!" Miss Earle went on dramatically and mysteriously. "They
tried to hush it up, of course, but the word went through the school
like wildfire that Flora wasn't only in the chorus, but that she was
_living with an actor_ she'd been writing fan letters to long before the
Easter play went on!"
"Did you hear his name?" Dundee asked.
"No," Miss Earle acknowledged regretfully. "But I'll bet anything it was
the truth!... Why, Flora Hackett was so man-crazy she flirted
scandalously with every male teacher in the school. The golf 'pro' we
had then got so scared of her he quit his job!"
"I suppose," Dundee prompted craftily, "she wasn't any worse than some
of the other Hamilton girls."
"We-ell," Miss Earle admitted reluctantly, "nothing ever _came out_ on
any of the others, but it looked mighty funny to me when Janet Raymond's
mother took her out of school right in the middle of a term and hauled
her off to Europe _for a whole year_!.
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