He was greatly interested in the success of the girls' "Liberty" sale. Mary Lee told him of the plans for the Red Cross week which was to begin on June 18th. The boy knew of that for his mother had written to him about it and he told Mary Lee of the plans his school had made to help during the same week.
"I'm one of the committee, too," he told her with great pride.
It was a still bright day when the party started for the station in the automobiles after waving a farewell to the caretakers. The train was due at the station at five o'clock. Aunt Madge had no wish to rush things and so had decided on an early start.
Bob left them at Plattsburg. He was to cross Champlain to Burlington and from there take a train for the school.
It was the idea of the girls that they would stay awake until late in the evening. But ten o'clock found most of them in their berths. At seven o'clock the following morning, the train arrived at the Grand Central. Letty, Edith and Mary Lee still showed traces of the scratches they had received in the woods. But they were not in the least disturbed by this for they carried the pleasantest recollections of a delightful party. If the truth were told, the incident of being lost, now that it was a thing of the past, carried a certain zest.
Letty had been quite vexed at herself for having cried when Mary Lee found them. She would have liked to pretend that she had not been at all frightened.
Edith, however, made an outright admission of how frightened she had been.
"And Letty," she rebuked the latter, "you know how scared you were. You needn't try to pretend you weren't."
"Well, I was, and so was Ruth," Mary Lee admitted.
"I suppose I must admit that I was, too," Letty ruefully added. "Though I would have liked to pretend that I was brave."