“I didn’t,” exclaimed Daisy. “You fooled me completely!”
“Oh, my fortune!” wailed Elise. “Where are those two lovely fates of mine?”
“And all my money!” groaned Patty. “I feel as if you had misappropriated my funds, Kit.”
It had not been necessary further to remove Cameron’s disguise, it was enough to see his hands, and hear his merry laugh.
“Hist!” cried Peyton, who had looked out along the road. “Here come Roger and Mona. Let’s give them a song and dance.”
Kit drew on his old gloves again, and huddled into his crouched posture, just as the two came in at the hut’s door.
“Just in time!” said Channing. “We’ve all had our fortunes told and were just about to go home. Take your turn now.”
“I don’t like to,” said Mona, who was looking very happy and was blushing a little.
Keen-eyed Kit spied this. “Pretty lady,” he began, in his droning tones, and as he also had a slight knowledge of ventriloquism, he most effectually disguised his own voice, “give me your little hand.”
“Go on, Mona, we all did,” said Patty, and wonderingly, Mona held out her hand.