“But why?”
“How?”
“What for?”
“Wait! Wait!” begged Sim, holding her hands up to ward off her importunate chums. “He’s going to explain it all when he comes over. It seems he just arrived in Pentville this afternoon. He was nice enough to say he remembered that we all lived here, and he’s lonesome, so he’s been keeping our line busy. He almost gave up finding us in.”
“But what’s he out here for?” asked Terry.
“Came especially to see you, my dear,” laughed Sim.
“Oh, be serious!” begged Arden.
“Well, I can safely wager he didn’t come to see me,” Dot put in. “I really hardly met him. You three monopolized him at Cedar Ridge and then got his thousand dollars’ reward.”
“We didn’t get the thousand dollars,” Sim said. “It was really the college swimming pool.”
“And Arden solved that mystery,” added Terry, referring to one told of in The Orchard Secret.