Adele laughed as she replied, “I guess that we shall have to put up with it as long as they are playing Pirates.”
“I wonder what they will be next,” Peggy Pierce remarked. “You remember that last year they were Indians.”
“Many of them will be going up to the city in the fall to attend the high school, and so probably this will be their last club,” Gertrude replied.
They were all rather glad to get back into the warm, cosy kitchen.
“Good!” cried Betty Burd. “The fudge is cool. It’s so nice and creamy, and the nuts are just crowding each other.”
Then followed a happy half-hour in which the candy was eaten amidst much joking and laughter. Soon thereafter the Jolly Pirates escorted the Sunny Six to their homes and quiet settled down over the town of Sunnyside.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
THE TWO DRYADS
It was ten o’clock when Eva and Adele went to their room that night.
“Think of it!” Eva declared with shining eyes. “The orphans at the Home have been in their beds and sound asleep for two long hours. I feel as though I were a grown-up young lady, don’t you, Adele?”
“I do, indeed,” Adele replied, “but to-morrow morning we may sleep as late as we wish.”