“All right,” he said, “I’ll ask him.”
“And you will go with us, won’t you, Frank?” asked Nellie.
“Oh, I think so.”
“If Inza were here now we’d have a splendid party.”
“Inza!” gasped Ephraim. “Inza Burrage? Has she been here?”
“All the winter. She was visiting a friend. Left a little more than a week ago.”
“Dot vos too pad!” murmured Hans. “She vould haf been deekled to seen me.”
“I’m sorry we didn’t git here afore she went,” said the Vermonter; “but we had the fun of seein’ Elsie Bellwood abaout a month ago, though it wasn’t much fun, come to think of it, she was feelin’ so darn bad.”
Inza Burrage and Elsie Bellwood had been two dear girl friends of Frank in his college days.
Frank sprang to his feet, his face working with excitement.