"You mean that you have set a mark which you must attain in order to allow yourselves to go?"
The girls nodded their heads very vigorously.
"Well, I call that a fine thing," replied Letty's father. "You may put Marshall down for fifteen hundred dollars, and I want to add that if you don't make the mark, come to me. I won't buy any more, but I'll see that you get a chance to sell some. Now, be off with you, while I dress for dinner," and Mr. Saunders chuckled to himself.
"And they worry about this country, when even the little girls are so serious-minded," he remarked to himself.
Mary Lee, together with Letty, called on the Camerons the next day.
"Now," said Mary Lee, "to business, for that is what we came for."
"Has Mr. Cameron bought any Liberty Bonds? Have you? Will Bob buy any?"
"My goodness," replied Mrs. Cameron, "I don't know whether Mr. Cameron did or didn't. I know I did not. I never even thought of it. I don't think Bob did, either."
"Well, you should buy some," Mary Lee advised. "You see, the country needs the money. Uncle Sam is behind these bonds and he pays three and one-half per cent."
"Three and one-half per cent?" repeated Mrs. Cameron. "My bank and my other bonds pay only three per cent."