“Well,” was the reply, “there were two things I wanted to do, and I don’t know which I shall choose.”
“Let’s hear them,” said Mr. Willing.
“You know, Dad, ever since Mabel and I went away with the Glee Club, we have both been anxious to take a trip on one of the big ocean steamers. That is one thing I would like to do.”
“And where would you like to go?”
“Any place. Across the ocean.”
“Well, we won’t do that,” said Colonel Ashton. “This European war makes it too risky. We might be sunk by one of those German submarines.”
“Right, Colonel,” agreed Mr. Willing. He turned again to Shirley, “and the other thing you would like to do?” he questioned.
“I should like to go to the Panama Exposition in San Francisco.”
Mabel jumped to her feet and clapped her hands.
“That’s where I should like to go, too,” she cried. “Why didn’t I think of it before?”