“I don’t care! I’ve got just as good a right in Mason’s meadow as Teddy Benson, Dick Kelly or Joe Denton. And I’m going there! I’ll take Margie with me.”
A little later, while Teddy and his chums were on their way to the deer mystery, Lucy hurried into the yard of the Kelly home. Mrs. Kelly saw her from a side window.
“Is Margie home, Mrs. Kelly?” asked Lucy.
“I think she is, my dear. She was just going over to your house but I think she is still up in her room. You may go right upstairs.”
The Benson and Kelly families visited back and forth as if they were relatives more than friends. So Lucy hurried into the house, calling:
“Margie! Where are you?”
“Just getting ready to come over to your house, Lucy. Come on up. I’ll be ready as soon as I tie a new ribbon on my hair.”
Lucy hurried into Margie’s room. There was something in the haste and manner of Lucy that caused Margie to stop and ask:
“What’s the matter? Has anything happened?”
“Teddy wouldn’t let me come to watch him, Joe and Dick fly their planes,” Lucy reported. “But I’m going anyhow. And if the planes won’t fly—and I don’t believe they will—we can have the laugh on them.”