"But I don't know what good a guard would do anyway," said Laura dolefully. "There's something creepy about the way Amanda finds out things. You think she's miles away and the next day she tells you more about what you did than you know yourself."
"Maybe she has an accomplice," said Billie dramatically, and the girls giggled.
"Anybody'd think Amanda was a criminal or something," said Laura, but Billie shook her head decidedly.
"Uh-uh," she said. "I might like a good honest criminal but I'll be jiggered—scuse me, ladies—if I can like Amanda Peabody! She's too sly!"
CHAPTER VI
OFF FOR THREE TOWERS HALL
It was just two weeks to the time when the girls were to leave for Three Towers Hall.
It seemed to them they would never get done all the things that they had to do, and they sewed and packed and planned until it seemed they must stop because of sheer exhaustion.
However, their parents sent them to bed early—and not without difficulty was this feat accomplished—on the night before the great day, and the morning found them refreshed and wildly eager for this new adventure.