"Well, my girlie, just try to do what you think Mother wants you to, and try not to make mistakes."
CHAPTER X
IN INKY PLIGHT
"It's perfectly fine, Glad; I think it will be the most fun ever. How many are you going to have?"
"About thirty, Mother says. I can't ask Kitty, and Dorothy Adams. All on the list are about as old as we are."
"Kitty'll be sorry, of course; but I don't believe mother would let her go in the evening, anyway. She's only nine, you know."
The two friends, Marjorie and Gladys, were on their way to school, and Gladys was telling about a Hallowe'en party she was to have the following week. The party was to be in the evening, from seven till nine, and, as it was unusual for the girls to have evening parties, they looked forward to this as a great occasion. Nearly all of the children who were to be invited went to the same school that Gladys did, so she carried the invitations with her, and gave them around before school began.
The invitations were written on cards which bore comical little pictures of witches, black cats, or jack-o'-lanterns, and this was the wording: