They all knew Betty’s cleverness in making up games, so they felt sure something could be done.
“There’s the school-bell,” said Lena. “You all come to my house this afternoon, and we’ll plan it all out.”
The girls agreed to this, and then they returned to the school-room, where, I am sorry to say, their rebellious pencils persisted in drawing witches or broomsticks, instead of copying the plaster cast of a classic leaf form which was their task for the day.
Not only that afternoon but several others were spent in arranging the details of the Hallowe’en party.
Jeanette, who was inclined to the serious rather than the grotesque, favored the idea of the guests appearing as Druids, who, she said, were really the originators of Allhallowe’en.
But Dorothy declared that Druids were poky old things and that witches were lots more fun.
So, as Betty and Lena insisted on ghosts, the invitations were finally compiled to read like this:
DRUIDS, WITCHES, AND GHOSTS
ARE INVITED TO ASSEMBLE AT THE HOME OF
MISS LENA CAREY
AND
MR. ROBERT CAREY
ON ALL HALLOWE’EN OCTOBER THIRTY-FIRST
AT EIGHT O’CLOCK
This gave the guests ample choice of costume, and if they chose they could come simply draped in sheets and pillow-cases, as at the old-time phantom parties.
Betty, after much deliberation, decided to wear a witch’s costume.