“Do you insinuate that anything crazy might come from our heads?” the latter two demanded crisply.
“I have known such times,” Val laughed.
“My friend, you wound me deeply,” Janet said with mock tears. “My thoughts are always for the betterment of humanity.”
Carol coughed loudly over a smothered giggle. “Quite so,” she agreed. “But that doesn’t settle the question of what to do with the reward.”
“Perhaps we better wait and see if there really is a reward,” Gale suggested dryly.
“Meanwhile, let’s eat,” Carol proposed and the rest were unanimous in agreement.
They all trooped to the kitchen, but there found Loo Wong already in the throes of making a late lunch and there was nothing they could do to help him so they went back to the living room to wait and to talk.
Chapter XX
REWARD
The sun was warm and dazzling. Gale felt uncomfortably hot as she rode along. The creak of saddle leather and the clop clop of her horse’s hoofs were all the sounds that disturbed the stillness. Somehow she had lost the others when she stopped some distance back and now she rode alone.
It was the day the Adventure Girls had planned to leave for home, but they hadn’t carried out their plans. Yesterday the notorious bandits had, under heavy guard, left for a federal prison. The Sheriff had bestowed the reward, one thousand dollars, upon the Adventure Girls. Now the question was, what were they to do with it? They had all agreed upon using it for some worthy cause rather than keeping it for themselves, but they couldn’t find a worthy cause.