"Of course we will. Now hurry, for they are waiting for us."
"Such a funny thing just happened to me!" cried Estelle to the party of young folks when they were in the automobile and on the way to the village. "I was mistaken for some one else."
"What—again?" asked Alice.
"No, the same incident that you witnessed," and she related the episode of the lieutenant as Alice had detailed it to Ruth.
"That was queer," commented Hal Watson.
"I should say so!" exclaimed Russ.
"Was he at all fresh?" Paul asked, and his air was truculent.
"Not in the least!" Estelle hastened to assure him. "He was honestly mistaken about it, that was all," and she enlarged on the incident, and seemed so genuinely amused by it that Alice nudged her sister as much as to say:
"See how much in error you are."
But Ruth only smiled, and Alice noticed that she regarded Estelle more closely than ever.