“You make fun,” said the Indian solemnly.
“You just wait until you see my motor car, Eunice!” cried Ruth. “It is the biggest bird, and it flies as fast as any you have ever seen. So do please hurry up and get well.”
“I will, now. I did not wish to get well before,” Eunice replied. “It is cold and lonely up on the hill in the snow time.”
CHAPTER XVIII
PLANS FOR THE SOCIETY CIRCUS
“Ralph and Hugh! I am so delighted to see you!” cried Mollie Thurston, a few days later. She was alone in their sitting room writing a letter, when the two friends arrived. “We girls have been dreadfully afraid you would not arrive in time for our Society Circus. You know the games take place to-morrow.”
“Oh, it is a ‘Society Circus’ we have come to! So that is the name Lenox has given to its latest form of social entertainment?” laughed Hugh. “Sorry we couldn’t get here sooner, Mollie; but you knew you could depend on our turning up at the appointed time. Where are the other girls and Aunt Sallie?”
“They are over at the Fair Grounds, watching Bab ride,” Mollie explained. “Ralph, I am awfully worried about Bab. One of the amusements of the circus is to be a riding contest. Of course, Bab rides very well, but I don’t think mother would approve of her undertaking such dangerous riding as jumping over hurdles. Ambassador Morton has told Aunt Sallie that there will be no danger. He is used to English girls riding across the country; and I know, at the riding schools in New York, they give these same contests; but we have never had any riding lessons. I can’t help being nervous.”