Joe and Albert stared open-mouthed and the members of the Riddle Club were obliged to explain.
"Gee, what did you do with the passes?" asked Joe quickly. "Perhaps we could use them."
"We gave them back to the manager. Mother said to," Margy told him.
"I don't see why you did that. We could have had a good time with them to-night, and maybe you could have used them again to-morrow," said Joe, looking much put out, as though Margy had acted very inconsiderately.
"Mother said we couldn't come again, and anyway the carnival won't be here long," Fred announced.
"And the man meant us to go in just once, I think," said Polly slowly. "It wouldn't be fair for everybody to use the passes and see the carnival free."
"Just the same, I think you might have let us have 'em," grumbled Joe.
The bus came along just then, and the Riddle Club members followed their mothers, leaving Joe and Albert to go on to the Carnival and make the most of their nickels.
"I don't believe he liked it because we gave the passes back," said Margy, finding a seat between Jess and Ward.
"Who? Joe? Don't let that worry you," Fred counseled. "I'm glad you didn't have a pass to give him; he would have thought he owned the show."