"I told her that while we appreciated the compliment, it would be
impossible."

"Quite right," said Mr. Campbell. "Publicity is the thing of all others I
wish to avoid, and if an article like that appeared in a Tokyo paper,
either in Japanese or English, you would probably be the object of the
most disagreeable curiosity. Am I not right, Yoritomo?"

"Oh, yes. It would not be agreeable to the young ladies. Many people
would come to look at them."

"I am very glad my action is approved, then," said Miss Campbell. "I have
an old-fashioned horror of notoriety like that, and I am sure none of my
girls would care to see herself in a newspaper. Would she?"

"No, indeed," they answered promptly in a chorus.

In a secret place in Nancy's mind, however, she saw a picture of her own
pretty face occupying at least one-third of a newspaper page and
underneath, blazoned in large letters: "The Beautiful Miss Anne Starbuck
Brown, One of the Famous Motor Maids."




CHAPTER V.

IN THE LIBRARY.