Edna uncovered the basket and saw a box lying there. Inside the box was a new quarter in which a hole had been drilled; a string had been passed through this and to the string was attached a bow of blue ribbon. Reliance found the same in her basket, only her ribbon was red.
"You must put them on and wear them," said Alcinda, "so everyone can see how honorable you are." She didn't just know why her father and mother smiled so broadly.
The girls proudly pinned on their medals and wore them home, for very soon came grandpa to say they must get ready to go.
"I'm going to keep mine forever and ever, aren't you?" whispered Reliance, as she started around to the kitchen door.
"'Deed I am," returned Edna.
CHAPTER IX
THE ELDERFLOWERS
Edna's account of the G. R. club, to which she and most of her friends belonged, had quite excited the ambition of the little girls at Overlea to have a similar one.
"I told my father about it," said Reba to Edna when they met at Jetty's party, "and he thought it was a most beautiful club, didn't he, Esther Ann, and he ought to know. He said we could have one just like it."