New Horizons (Mandie: Her College Days Book #1) by Lois Gladys Leppard

Author:Lois Gladys Leppard
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Religious, Young Adult Fiction, Christian, General
ISBN: 9781441260369
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2006-02-01T17:19:05.333000+00:00

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The day finally came when Mandie and Celia had to go back to school. Joe escorted them back to Charleston, and Jonathan and his father left in their special train car for New York. Uncle Ned, Morningstar, and Sallie went back to their home, but Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Hamilton stayed on awhile with Elizabeth and John Shaw.

Mr. Ryland met Mandie, Celia, and Joe at the depot with the carriage. Mary Lou was with him. She told them her mother would like for them all to come to their house for supper.

“Joe would like to see the college,” Mandie told her as they boarded the carriage. “We have plenty of time for that, don’t we?”

“Yes, we won’t eat until six. Let’s go on to the college first, then,” Mary Lou decided.

Mr. Ryland waited with the carriage while Joe, Mandie, Celia, and Mary Lou walked around the college.

“The buildings are very impressive,” Joe remarked as he looked around.

When they entered the front door of the main building, Mandie saw a lot of the girls sitting around the reception area. They all paused in their conversations to stare at Joe.

Mandie said under her breath to Celia, “I knew they would do that.” They walked around the lobby and went into the sitting room, where more girls were talking. They, too, paused to look at Joe.

“You’d think these girls had never seen a man before,” Mary Lou remarked under her breath.

“They haven’t seen this one before, and they’re just wondering who he is,” Mandie whispered back.

“You have a beautiful college.” Joe complimented the girls on their choice of school.

As they walked back up the driveway to return to the carriage, Mandie saw George Stuart and his friend arrive in another carriage. George looked at Mandie and Joe and said to his friend, “Now, they must have been properly introduced.”

Mandie hurried to board the carriage with her friends.

“He always has to turn up,” Mandie mumbled to Celia.

“Like he’s watching for you,” Celia whispered back.

Mr. and Mrs. Dunnigan made Joe welcome, and everyone enjoyed the visit. Then Mr. Dunnigan insisted that Joe spend the night with them instead of in that lonely hotel. Joe finally agreed, and they went to get his things from the depot.

Then Mandie insisted that Joe should come and see their boardinghouse and meet Mrs. Thomason.

Mrs. Thomason was very friendly with Joe, and he smiled when he asked, “Now, what about that ghost you have living here?”

Mrs. Thomason laughed and said, “Oh, it’s not really a ghost. It’s some devilish boys.”

Joe looked at Mandie and Celia and said, “You see, you don’t really have a ghost living here.”

“I didn’t believe it anyway,” Mandie told him.

Classes wouldn’t be starting for another day, so Mandie, Celia, and Mary Lou saw Joe off on the train the next day.

“I’ll see you at Christmastime,” Joe called to Mandie and Celia as he waved from the open window of the train.

“Yes, see you then!” Mandie replied as the train pulled out of the station, huffing and puffing and ringing its bell.

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