“No, I didn’t think you’d recognize me without my mustache!” retorted the high-school lad, with a chuckle.
“I knew I’d be glad to see you,” remarked Agnes, “but didn’t know until you got here how really and awfully glad I’d be. And this is——?”
“Oh, Hal, pardon me,” said Nally quickly. “Allow me——”
The presentations were made amid laughter, and then the visitors were carried off to the Corner House where, though the girls knew it not, a mystery remained to be solved.
CHAPTER VI
WITCHES AND WARLOCKS
There were whisperings in the “cubby hole” beneath the front stairs. This was a favorite conspiring place for Tess and Dot, and the two small Kenway girls were even now in that retreat, lowering their voices so they would not be heard by Ruth and Agnes.
But there was small danger of this, for the older Corner House girls were preparing to entertain their two Boston guests that evening by inviting in other friends to meet Nally and Hal.
And, be it known, Tess and Dot were preparing to do some “entertaining” on their own account. Hence the whispers and the hiding away in the cubby hole.
“We’d better tell Sammy about it,” suggested Dot. “He’ll know best what things to do to s’prise ’em.”
“Well, maybe,” agreed Tess reluctantly.