The attendant was right! There were eight hundred dollars in all, in fifty-dollar notes. And the best part about it was the fact that the numbers proved that the money belonged to Miss Mattie Grant!
CHAPTER VIII
A Confession
It was a little after nine o’clock the following morning that Mary Louise and Jane set off for Dark Cedars. The money was safely hidden in Mary Louise’s blouse, and Silky was told to come along for protection.
“I’ll never leave him home again,” said Mary Louise. “Miss Grant will have to get used to him. But when we tell her about last night I guess she’ll think he’s a pretty wonderful dog.”
“I dreamed about bandits and robbers,” remarked Jane, with a shudder. “No more night adventures for me!”
“Well, it was worth it, wasn’t it? Think of the pleasure of clearing Elsie of suspicion!”
“It won’t, though. Her aunt will insist that she took that gold.”
“We’re going to get that back too,” asserted Mary Louise confidently.
“By the way,” observed Jane, “Norman tried to make me promise we’d drive over to the Park with them this afternoon and have our supper there, after a swim. I said I’d let him know.”
Mary Louise shook her head.