Elsie's Friends at Woodburn (Classic Reprint)

ELSIE'S FRIENDS AT WOODBURN.
CHAPTER I
The twenty-fourth had been cold and stormy: a keen, biting wind blowing continuously, during the greater part 01 the aay, bringing with it a heavy fall of sleet and snow.
The weather on Christmas is ay was an improvement npon that-the wind being less boisterous and the snow-fall only an occasional light flnrry, but the eun scarcely showed his face, and as evening drew on the moon shone but fitfully and through slurrying clouds ; the ground was white with snow, bnt as it had drifted badly, the roads were not in condition for sleighing, and Max Raymond and Evelyn Leland made the journey from Woodbum to the Oaks in a close carriage.
Captain Raymond handed Evelyn in. Max took a seat by her side and gallantly tucked the robes about her feet, remarking that it was the coldest night of the season so far.
" Yes," she said, " bnt I suppose we shall have

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