“The heck you have!” exclaimed Max, in disappointment. “You’ve got to break it!”
“Sez you?”
“Yeah! Sez I. And you’ll say so too, Mary Lou, when you hear more about this picnic. It’s going to be different. We’re driving across to Cooper’s woods——”
“Oh, I’ve been there,” yawned Mary Louise. “There’s nothing special there. Looks spooky and deep, but it’s just an ordinary woods. Maybe a little wilder——”
“Wait! You women never let a fellow talk. I’ve been trying to tell you something for five minutes, and here we are at your house, and you haven’t heard it yet.”
“I guess I shan’t die.”
With a light laugh she opened the car door and leaped out, at the exact moment that Jane and Norman jumped from the rumble, avoiding a collision by a fraction of an inch.
“Tell me about it when I come out again,” called Mary Louise to Max as she and Jane ran into their respective houses to change.
Freckles met Mary Louise at the door.
“Can I go with you, Sis?” he demanded.