“Oh, won’t that be fun, though!” exclaimed Betty Burd, whirling around like a top.
“And we’ll invite Bob and Jack and all of the Jolly Pirates’ Club,” Doris Drexel added.
These happy girls were soon to give a party at their Secret Sanctum, though it was to be very different from the one which they were so gayly planning.
CHAPTER FOUR
ADELE’S SECRET
A secret! A secret!
Who can guess the secret?
There’s blue in it and green in it,
And bird-song lilting gay,
There’s dancing and there’s laughter
And there’s mirth and merry play.
One Friday, after the Secret Sanctum had been furnished as the girls had planned, the six were waiting for Adele under the elm-tree in the school-yard.
“Didn’t we have fun last Saturday!” chattered Betty Burd. “But I don’t know what we would have done if Bob Angel and Jack Doring had not carted those heavy things to the cabin for us.”
Bob Angel assisted his father after school-hours by delivering groceries, and he had readily consented to cart the mattress and boxes to the cabin for his sister, Bertha, and her friends.
“I’m so glad I found those bright-colored prints up in our attic,” said Doris Drexel. “They are some my grandmother had, and, with their queer, old-fashioned frames, they are just suited to our Sanctum.”
“I can’t get over admiring the china-closet and the book-case,” Betty declared. “I never dreamed that such pretty things could be made out of just orange boxes.”