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 Answer: B

9) When adding two numbers, the number of significant figures in the sum is equal to the number of 9)
significant figures in the least accurate of the numbers being added.
A) True B) False

Answer: B

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10) When determining the number of significant figures in a number, zeroes to the left of the decimal 10)
point are never counted.
A) True B) False
Answer: B

11) Convert 1.2 × 10-3 to decimal notation. 11)

A) 1.200 B) 0.1200 C) 0.0120 D) 0.0012 E) 0.00012
Answer: D

12) Write out the number 7.35 × 10-5 in full with a decimal point and correct number of zeros. 12)
A) 0.00000735
B) 0.0000735
C) 0.000735
D) 0.00735
E) 0.0735
Answer: B

13) 0.0001776 can also be expressed as 13)

A) 1.776 × 10-3 .
B) 1.776 × 10-4 .
C) 17.72 × 104 .
D) 1772 × 105 .
E) 177.2 × 107 .
Answer: B

14) 0.00325 × 10-8 cm can also be expressed in mm as 14)

A) 3.25 × 10-12 mm.
B) 3.25 × 10-11 mm.
C) 3.25 × 10-10 mm.
D) 3.25 × 10-9 mm.
E) 3.25 × 10-8 mm.
Answer: C

15) If, in a parallel universe, Δ has the value 3.14149, express Δ in that universe to four significant 15)
figures.
A) 3.141 B) 3.142 C) 3.1415 D) 3.1414
Answer: A

16) The number 0.003010 has 16)

A) 7 significant figures. B) 6 significant figures.
C) 4 significant figures. D) 2 significant figures.
Answer: C

0.674
17) What is to the proper number of significant figures? 17)
0.74
A) 0.9108 B) 0.91 C) 0.9 D) 0.911
Answer: B

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18) What is the value of Δ(8.104) 2 , written with the correct number of significant figures? 18)
A) 206.324 B) 206.323 C) 206.3 D) 206 E) 200
Answer: C

19) What is the sum of 1123 and 10.3 written with the correct number of significant figures? 19)
A) 1.1 × 103 B) 1.13 × 103 C) 1133 D) 1133.3000 E) 1133.3
Answer: C

20) What is the sum of 1.53 + 2.786 + 3.3 written with the correct number of significant figures? 20)
A) 8 B) 7.6 C) 7.62 D) 7.616 E) 7.6160
Answer: B

21) What is the difference between 103.5 and 102.24 written with the correct number of significant 21)
figures?
A) 1 B) 1.3 C) 1.26 D) 1.260 E) 1.2600
Answer: B

22) What is the product of 11.24 and 1.95 written with the correct number of significant figures? 22)
A) 22 B) 21.9 C) 21.92 D) 21.918 E) 21.9180
Answer: B

23) What is the result of 1.58 ÷ 3.793 written with the correct number of significant figures? 23)
A) 4.2 × 10 -1
B) 4.1656 × 10-1
C) 4 × 10 -1
D) 4.166 × 10 -1
E) 4.17 × 10 -1
Answer: E

24) What is 34 + (3) × (1.2465) written with the correct number of significant figures? 24)
A) 38 B) 37.74 C) 37.7395 D) 37.7 E) 4 × 101
Answer: A

25) What is 56 + (32.00)/(1.2465 + 3.45) written with the correct number of significant figures? 25)
A) 62.81
B) 62.8123846
C) 62.812
D) 62.8
E) 63
Answer: E

26) Add 3685 g and 66.8 kg and express your answer in milligrams (mg). 26)
A) 7.05 × 104 mg B) 7.05 × 107 mg C) 7.05 × 106 mg D) 7.05 × 105 mg
Answer: B

27) Express (4.3 × 10 6 )-1/2 in scientific notation. 27)

A) 2.1 × 103 B) 4.8 × 10-4 C) 2.1 × 104 D) 2.1 × 10-5
Answer: B

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28) What is 0.205 2/3, expressed to the proper number of significant figures? 28)
A) 0.3 B) 0.35 C) 0.3477 D) 0.348
Answer: D

29) The length and width of a rectangle are 1.125 m and 0.606 m, respectively. Multiplying, your 29)
calculator gives the product as 0.68175. Rounding properly to the correct number of significant
figures, the area should be written as
A) 0.7 m2 . B)
0.68 m2 . C)
0.682 m2 . D)
0.6818 m2 .
E) 0.68175 m2 .
Answer: C

30) The following exact conversion equivalents are given: 1 m = 100 cm , 1 in = 2.54 cm, and 30)
1 ft = 12 in. If a computer screen has an area of 1.27 ft2 , this area is closest to
A) 0.0465 m 2 .
B) 0.00284 m 2 .
C) 0.118 m 2 . D)
0.284 m 2 .
E) 4.65 m 2 .
Answer: C

31) In addition to 1 m = 39.37 in., the following exact conversion equivalents are given: 31)
1 mile = 5280 ft , 1 ft = 12 in , 1 hour = 60 min, and 1 min = 60 s. If a particle has a velocity of 8.4
miles per hour,its velocity, in m/s, is closest to
A) 3.0 m/s. B) 3.8 m/s. C) 4.5 m/s. D) 4.1 m/s. E) 3.4 m/s.
Answer: B

32) A weight lifter can bench press 171 kg. How many milligrams (mg) is this? 32)
A) 1.71 × 108 mg B) 1.71 × 109 mg C) 1.71 × 107 mg D) 1.71 × 106 mg
Answer: A

33) How many nanoseconds does it take for a computer to perform one calculation if it performs 33)
6.7 × 10 7 calculations per second?
A) 15 ns B) 67 ns C) 65 ns D) 11 ns
Answer: A

34) The shortest wavelength of visible light is approximately 400 nm. Express this wavelength in A
centimeters.
n
A) 4 × 10-5 cm B) s
4 × 10-11 cm C) 4 w
× 10-7 cm D) 400 e
× 10-11 cm E) 4 × r
10-9 cm
Answer: B

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: A 34)

Answer: B

5
 35) The wavelength of a certain laser is 0.35 micrometers, where 1 micrometer = 1 × 10-6 m. Express 35)
this wavelength in nanometers.
A) 3.5 × 103 nm B) 3.5 × 104 nm C) 3.5 × 101 nm D) 3.5 × 102 nm
Answer: D

36) A certain CD-ROM disk can store approximately 6.0 × 102 megabytes of information, where 10 6 36)
bytes = 1 megabyte. If an average word requires 9.0 bytes of storage, how many words can be
stored on one disk?
A) 6.7 × 107 words B) 2.0 × 109 words
C) 2.1 × 107 words D) 5.4 × 109 words
Answer: A

37) A plot of land contains 5.8 acres. How many square meters does it contain? [1 acre = 43,560 ft2 ] 37)
A) 5.0 × 104 m2 B) 2.3 × 104 m2 C) 7.1 × 103 m2 D) 7.0 × 104 m2
Answer: B

38) A person on a diet loses 1.6 kg in a week. How many micrograms/second (µg/s) are lost? 38)
A) 2.6 × 103 µg/s B) 6.4 × 104 µg/s C) 1.6 × 105 µg/s D) 44 µg/s
Answer: A

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
39) Albert uses as his unit of length (for walking to visit his neighbors or plowing his fields) 39)
the albert (A), the distance Albert can throw a small rock. One albert is 92 meters. How
many square alberts is equal to one acre? (1 acre = 43,560 ft2 = 4050 m 2 )
Answer: 1.29 A2

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

40) Convert a speed of 4.50 km/h to units of ft/min. (1.00 m = 3.28 ft) 40)
A) 246 ft/min
B) 886 ft/min
C) 82.3 ft/min
D) 0.246 ft/min
E) 165 ft/min
Answer: A

41) The exhaust fan on a typical kitchen stove pulls 600 CFM (cubic feet per minute) through the filter. 41)
Given that 1.00 in. = 2.54 cm, how many cubic meters per second does this fan pull?
A) 0.283 m3 /sec B) 3.05 m3 /sec C) 0.328 m3 /sec D) 32.8 m 3 /sec
Answer: A

42) The mass of a typical adult woman is closest to 42)

A) 35 kg. B) 150 kg. C) 75 kg. D) 20 kg.
Answer: C

43) The height of the ceiling in a typical home, apartment, or dorm room is closest to 43)
A) 100 cm. B) 200 cm. C) 400 cm. D) 500 cm.
Answer: B
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44) Approximately how many times does an average human heart beat in a year? 44)
A) 4 × 10 7 B) 4 × 10 9 C) 4 × 10 8 D) 4 × 10 5 E) 4 × 10 6
Answer: A

45) Approximately how many times does an average human heart beat in a lifetime? 45)
A) 3 × 10 10 B) 3 × 10 11 C) 3 × 10 8 D) 3 × 10 9 E) 3 × 10 7
Answer: D

46) Approximately how many pennies would you have to stack to reach an average 8-foot ceiling? 46)
A) 2 × 10 5 B) 2 × 10 3 C) 2 × 10 2 D) 2 × 10 4 E) 2 x 10 6
Answer: B

47) Estimate the number of times the earth will rotate on its axis during a human's lifetime. 47)
A) 3 x 10 8 B) 3 × 10 4 C) 3 × 10 7 D) 3 × 10 5 E) 3 × 10 6
Answer: B

48) Estimate the number of pennies that would fit in a box one foot long by one foot wide by one foot 48)
tall.
A) 5 x 10 6 B) 5 × 10 2 C) 5 × 10 4 D) 5 × 10 3 E) 5 × 10 5
Answer: C

49) A marathon is 26 mi and 385 yd long. Estimate how many strides would be required to run a 49)
marathon. Assume a reasonable value for the average number of feet/stride.
A) 4.5 × 103 strides B) 4.5 × 104 strides
C) 4.5 × 105 strides D) 4.5 × 106 strides
Answer: B

50) The period of a pendulum is the time it takes the pendulum to swing back and forth once. If the 50)
only dimensional quantities that the period depends on are the acceleration of gravity, g, and the
length of the pendulum, G, what combination of g and G must the period be proportional to?
(Acceleration has SI units of m · s -2 .).
A) g/G B) gG2 C) G/g D) gG E) gG
Answer: C

51) The speed of a wave pulse on a string depends on the tension, F, in the string and the mass per 51)
unit length, µ, of the string. Tension has SI units of kg · m · s-2 and the mass per unit length has SI
units of kg · m-1 . What combination of F and µ must the speed of the wave be proportional to?
A) F / µ B) µF C) µ / F D) µ/F E) F/µ
Answer: A

52) The position x, in meters, of an object is given by the equation x = A + Bt + Ct2 , where t represents E
time in seconds. What are the SI units of A, B, and C?
)
A) m/s, m/s2 , m/s3 m
B) m, s, s
,
C) m, m, m
D) m, m/s, m/s2 s
,
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Answer: C

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 “NO, DADDY,” SHE SAID, “I—I THINK I—I AM IN LOVE.”
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 DOROTHY DALE’S
ENGAGEMENT

BY

MARGARET PENROSE

AUTHOR OF “DOROTHY DALE: A GIRL OF TO-DAY,” “DOROTHY

DALE AT GLENWOOD SCHOOL,” “DOROTHY DALE IN
THE CITY,” “THE MOTOR GIRLS SERIES,” ETC.

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PENROSE
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THE DOROTHY DALE SERIES

DOROTHY DALE: A GIRL OF TO-DAY
DOROTHY DALE AT GLENWOOD
SCHOOL
DOROTHY DALE’S GREAT SECRET
DOROTHY DALE AND HER CHUMS
DOROTHY DALE’S QUEER HOLIDAYS
DOROTHY DALE’S CAMPING DAYS
DOROTHY DALE’S SCHOOL RIVALS
DOROTHY DALE IN THE CITY
DOROTHY DALE’S PROMISE
DOROTHY DALE IN THE WEST
DOROTHY DALE’S STRANGE
DISCOVERY
DOROTHY DALE’S ENGAGEMENT

THE MOTOR GIRLS SERIES

THE MOTOR GIRLS
THE MOTOR GIRLS ON A TOUR
THE MOTOR GIRLS AT LOOKOUT BEACH
THE MOTOR GIRLS THROUGH NEW
ENGLAND
THE MOTOR GIRLS ON CEDAR LAKE
THE MOTOR GIRLS ON THE COAST
THE MOTOR GIRLS ON CRYSTAL BAY
THE MOTOR GIRLS ON WATERS BLUE
THE MOTOR GIRLS AT CAMP SURPRISE
THE MOTOR GIRLS IN THE MOUNTAINS
Cupples & Leon Co., Publishers, New York

Copyright, 1917, by
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

DOROTHY DALE’S ENGAGEMENT

 CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE

I. “Alone in a Great City” 1

II. G. K. to the Rescue 17
III. Tavia in the Shade 26
IV. Something About “G. Knapp” 32
V. Dorothy Is Disturbed 40
VI. Something of a Mystery 47
VII. Garry Sees a Wall Ahead 57
VIII. And Still Dorothy Is Not Happy 66
IX. They See Garry’s Back 72
X. “Heart Disease” 78
XI. A Bold Thing to Do! 84
XII. Uncertainties 92
XIII. Dorothy Makes a Discovery 101
XIV. Tavia Is Determined 109
XV. The Slide on Snake Hill 116
XVI. The Fly in the Amber 127
XVII. “Do You Understand Tavia?” 135
XVIII. Cross Purposes 141
XIX. Wedding Bells in Prospect 147
XX. A Girl of To-Day 154
XXI. The Bud Unfolds 162
XXII. Dorothy Decides 169
Nat Jumps at a Conclusion
 XXIII. 179
XXIV. Thin Ice 188
XXV. Garry Balks 200
XXVI. Serious Thoughts 207
XXVII. “It’s All Off!” 213
XXVIII. The Castaways 225
XXIX. Something Amazing 235
XXX. So It Was All Settled 243
DOROTHY DALE’S
ENGAGEMENT
 CHAPTER I
“ALONE IN A GREAT CITY”

“Now, Tavia!”
“Now, Dorothy!” mocked Octavia Travers, making a little face as
she did so; but then, Tavia Travers could afford to “make faces,”
possessing as she did such a naturally pretty one.
“We must decide immediately,” her chum, Dorothy Dale, said
decidedly, “whether to continue in the train under the river and so to
the main station, or to change for the Hudson tube. You know, we
can walk from the tube station at Twenty-third Street to the hotel
Aunt Winnie always patronizes.”
“With these heavy bags, Doro?”
“Only a block and a half, my dear Tavia. You are a strong, healthy
girl.”
“But I do so like to have people do things for me,” sighed Tavia,
clasping her hands. “And taxicabs are so nice.”
“And expensive,” rejoined Dorothy.
“Of course. That is what helps to make them nice,” declared Tavia.
“Doro, I just love to throw away money!”
“You only think you do, my dear,” her chum said placidly. “Once
you had thrown some of your own money away—some of that your
father sent you to spend for your fall and winter outfit—you would
sing a different tune.”
“I don’t believe I would—not if by throwing it away I really made a
splurge, Doro,” sighed Tavia. “I love money.”
“You mean, you love what money enables us to have.”
“Yep,” returned the slangy Tavia. “And taxicab rides eat up money
horribly. We found that out, Doro, when we were in New York before,
that time—before we graduated from dear old Glenwood School.”
“But this isn’t getting us anywhere. To return——”
“‘Revenons à nos moutons!’ Sure! I know,” gabbled Tavia. “Let us
return to our mutton. He, he! Have I forgotten my French?”
“I really think you have,” laughed Dorothy Dale. “Most of it. And
almost everything else you learned at dear old Glenwood, Tavia. But,
quick! Decide, my dear. How shall we enter New York City? We are
approaching the Manhattan Transfer.”
“Mercy! So quick?”
“Yes. Just like that.”
“I tell you,” whispered Tavia, suddenly becoming confidential, her
sparkling eyes darting a glance ahead. “Let’s leave it to that nice
man.”
“Who? What man do you mean, Tavia?” demanded Dorothy, her
face at once serious. “Do try to behave.”
“Am behaving,” declared Tavia, nodding. “But I’m a good sport.
Let’s leave it to him.”
“Whom do you mean?”
“You know. That nice, Western looking young man who opened
the window for us that time. He is sitting in that chair just yonder.
Don’t you see?” and she indicated a pair of broad shoulders in a
gray coat, above which was revealed a well-shaped head with a
thatch of black hair.
“Do consider!” begged Dorothy, catching Tavia’s hand as though
she feared her chum was about to get up to speak to this stranger.
“This is a public car. We are observed.”
“Little silly!” said Tavia, smiling upon her chum tenderly. “You don’t
suppose I would do anything so crude—or rude—as to speak to the
gentleman? ‘Fie! fie! fie for shame! Turn your back and tell his
name!’ And you don’t know it, you know you don’t, Doro.”
 Dorothy broke into smiles again and shook her head; her own
eyes, too, dancing roguishly.
“I only know his initials,” she said.
“What?” gasped Tavia Travers in something more than mock
horror.
“Yes. They are ‘G. K.’ I saw them on his bag. Couldn’t help it,”
explained Dorothy, now laughing outright. “But decide, dear! Shall
we change at Manhattan Transfer?”
“If he does—there!” chuckled Tavia. “We’ll get out if the nice
Western cowboy person does. Oh! he’s a whole lot nicer looking
than Lance Petterby.”
“Dear me, Tavia! Haven’t you forgotten Lance yet?”
“Never!” vowed Tavia, tragically. “Not till the day of my death—and
then some, as Lance would himself say.”
“You are incorrigible,” sighed Dorothy. Then: “He’s going to get out,
Tavia!”
“Oh! oh! oh!” crowed her chum, under her breath. “You were
looking.”
“Goodness me!” returned Dorothy, in some exasperation. “Who
could miss that hat?”
The young man in question had put on his broad-brimmed gray
hat. He was just the style of man that such a hat became.
The young man lifted down the heavy suitcase from the rack—the
one on which Dorothy had seen the big, black letters, “G. K.” He had
a second suitcase of the same description under his feet. He set
both out into the aisle, threw his folded light overcoat over his arm,
and prepared to make for the front door of the car as the train began
to slow down.
“Come on, now!” cried Tavia, suddenly in a great hurry.
But Dorothy had to put on her coat, and to make sure that she
looked just right in the mirror beside her chair. All Tavia had to do
was to toss her summer fur about her neck and grab up her traveling
bag.
“We’ll be left!” she cried. “The train doesn’t stop here long.”
“You run, then, and tell them to wait,” Dorothy said calmly.
They were, however, the last to leave the car—the last to leave the
train, in fact—at the elevated platform which gives a broad view of
the New Jersey meadows.
“My goodness me!” gasped Tavia, as the brakeman helped them
to the platform, and waved his hand for departure. “My goodness
me! We’re clear at this end of this awful platform, and the tube train
stops—and of course starts—at the far end. A mile to walk with
these bags and not a redcap in sight. Oh, yes! there’s one,” she
added faintly.
“Redcap?” queried Dorothy. “Oh! you mean a porter.”
“Yes,” Tavia said. “Of course you would be slow. Everybody’s got a
porter but us.”
Dorothy laughed mellowly. “Who’s fault do you intimate it is?” she
asked. “We might have been the first out of the car.”
“He’s got one,” whispered Tavia.
Oddly enough her chum did not ask “Who?” this time. She, too,
was looking at the back of the well-set-up young man whose initials
seemed to be G. K. He stood confronting an importunate porter,
whose smiling face was visible to the girls as he said:
“Why, Boss, yo’ can’t possibly kerry dem two big bags f’om dis end
ob de platfo’m to de odder.”
The porter held out both hands for the big suitcases carried by the
Western looking young man, who really appeared to be physically
much better able to carry his baggage than the negro.
“I don’t suppose two-bits has anything to do with your desire to
tote my bag?” suggested the white man, and the listening girls knew
he must be smiling broadly.
 “Why, Boss, yo’ can’t earn two-bits carryin’ bags yere; but I kin,”
and the negro chuckled delightedly as he gained possession of the
bags. “Come right along, Boss.”
As the porter set off, the young man turned and saw Dorothy Dale
and Tavia Travers behind him. Besides themselves, indeed, this end
of the long cement platform was clear. Other passengers from the in-
bound train had either gone forward or descended into the tunnel
under the tracks to reach the north-side platform. The only porter in
sight was the man who had taken G. K.’s bags.
The weight of the shiny black bags the girls carried was obvious.
Indeed, perhaps Tavia sagged perceptibly on that side—and
intentionally; and, of course, her hazel eyes said “Please!” just as
plain as eyes ever spoke before.
Off came the broad-brimmed hat just for an instant. Then he held
out both hands.
“Let me help you, ladies,” he said, with the pleasantest of smiles.
“Seeing that I have obtained the services of the only Jasper in sight,
you’d better let me play porter. Going to take this tube train, ladies?”
“Yes, indeed!” cried Tavia, twinkling with smiles at once, and first to
give him a bag.
Dorothy might have hesitated, but the young man was insistent
and quick. He seized both bags as a matter of course, and Dorothy
Dale could not pull hers away from him.
“You must let us pay your porter, then,” she said, in her quietly
pleasant way.
“Bless you! we won’t fight over that,” chuckled the young man.
He was agreeably talkative, with that wholesome, free, yet
chivalrous manner which the girls, especially the thoughtful Dorothy,
had noticed as particular attributes of the men they had met during
their memorable trip to the West, some months before.
She noticed, too, that his attentions to Tavia and herself were
nicely balanced. Of course, Tavia, as she always did, began to run
on in her light-hearted and irresponsible way; but though the young
man listened to her with a quiet smile, he spoke directly to Dorothy
quite as often as he did to the flyaway girl. He did not seek to take
advantage of Tavia’s exuberant good spirits as so many strangers
might have done.
Tavia’s flirtatious ways were a sore trial to her more sober chum;
but this young man seemed to understand Tavia at once.
“Of course, you’re from the West?” Tavia finished one “rattlety-
bang” series of remarks with this direct question.
“Of course I am. Right from the desert—Desert City, in fact,” he
said, with a quiet smile.
“Oh!” gasped Tavia, turning her big eyes on her chum. “Did you
hear that, Doro? Desert City!”
For the girls, during their visit to the West had, as Tavia often
claimed in true Western slang, helped “put Desert City on the map.”
Dorothy, however, did not propose to let this conversation with a
strange man become at all personal. She ignored her chum’s
observation and, as the city-bound tube train came sliding in beside
the platform, she reached for her own bag and insisted upon taking it
from the Westerner’s hand.
“Thank you so much,” she said, with just the right degree of
firmness as well as of gratitude.
Perforce he had to give up the bag, and Tavia’s, too, for there was
the red-capped, smiling negro expectant of the “two-bits.”
“You are so kind,” breathed Tavia, with one of her wonderful “man-
killing” glances at the considerate G. K., as Dorothy’s cousin, Nat
White, would have termed her expression of countenance.
G. K. was polite and not brusk; but he was not flirtatious. Dorothy
entered the Hudson tube train with a feeling of considerable
satisfaction. G. K. did not even enter the car by the same door as
themselves nor did he take the empty seat opposite the girls, as he
might have done.
 “There! he is one young man who will not flirt with you, Tavia,” she
said, admonishingly.
“Pooh! I didn’t half try,” declared her chum, lightly.
“My dear! you would be tempted, I believe, to flirt with a blind
man!”
“Oh, Doro! Never!” Then she dimpled suddenly, glancing out of the
window as the train swept on. “There’s a man I didn’t try to flirt with.”
“Where?” laughed Dorothy.
“Outside there beside the tracks,” for they had not yet reached the
Summit Avenue Station, and it is beyond that spot that the trains
dive into the tunnel.
“We passed him too quickly then,” said Dorothy. “Lucky man!”
The next moment—or so it seemed—Tavia began on another tack:
“To think! In fifteen minutes, Doro my dear, we shall be ‘Alone in a
Great City.’”
“How alone?” drawled her friend. “Do you suppose New York has
suddenly been depopulated?”
“But we shall be alone, Doro. What more lonesome than a crowd
in which you know nobody?”
“How very thoughtful you have become of a sudden. I hope you
will keep your hand on your purse, dear. There will be some people
left in the great city—and perhaps one may be a pickpocket.”
The electric lights were flashed on, and the train soon dived into
the great tunnel, “like a rabbit into his burrow,” Tavia said. They had
to disembark at Grove Street to change for an uptown train. The tall
young Westerner did likewise, but he did not accost them.
The Sixth Avenue train soon whisked the girls to their destination,
and they got out at Twenty-third Street. As they climbed the steps to
the street level, Tavia suddenly uttered a surprised cry.
“Look, will you, Doro?” she said. “Right ahead!”
 “G. K.!” exclaimed her friend, for there was the young man
mounting the stairs, lugging his two heavy suitcases.
“Suppose he goes to the very same hotel?” giggled Tavia.
“Well—maybe that will be nice,” Dorothy said composedly. “He
looks nice enough for us to get acquainted with him—in some
perfectly proper way, of course.”
“Whew, Doro!” breathed Tavia, her eyes opening wide again.
“You’re coming on, my dear.”
“I am speaking sensibly. If he is a nice young man and perfectly
respectable, why shouldn’t he find some means of meeting us—if he
wants to—and we are all at the same hotel?”
“But——”
“I don’t believe in flirting,” said Dorothy Dale, calmly, yet with a
twinkle in her eyes. “But I certainly would not fly in the face of
Providence—as Miss Higley, our old teacher at Glenwood, would say
—and refuse to meet G. K. He looks like a really nice young man.”
“Doro!” gasped Tavia. “You amaze me! I shall next expect to see
the heavens fall!”
“Don’t be ridiculous,” said her friend, as they reached the exit of
the tube station and stepped out upon the sidewalk.
There was the Westerner already dickering with a boy to carry his
bags.
“He likes to throw money away, too!” whispered Tavia. “I suppose
we must be economical and carry ours.”
“As there seems to be no other boy in sight—yes,” laughed her
friend.
“That young man gets the best of us every time,” complained Tavia
under her breath.
“He is typically Western,” said Dorothy. “He is prompt.”
But then, the boy starting off with the heavy bags in a little box-
wagon he drew, the young man whose initials were G. K., turned