CHAPTER III
ENTER THE TWINS
“Gee Christopher, but you girls gave me a scare!” exploded the young lawyer, as soon as he came within speaking range. His words included all the girls but his look was only for Betty.
“What do you mean, gave you a scare?” asked Mollie, her black eyes dancing. “We haven’t seen you for almost a week.”
“Maybe Betty has,” murmured Grace, with a wicked glance at the Little Captain.
“No, I haven’t,” said the latter, looking up demurely. The furious color had subsided and she was just flushed enough to look unusually pretty. As for what Allen thought—
“Look here,” he said, abruptly, his handsome young face very serious as he searched Betty’s expression, “did Babcock tell me the truth when he said the General Pershing almost ran you down?”
On Betty’s face was a look of bewilderment.
“How did you know?” she questioned. “It only just happened?”
“Who’s Babcock?” asked Grace, with interest.
“A lawyer I’ve met once or twice,” returned Allen, still with his worried eyes fixed on Betty. “We ran into each other a few minutes ago. Seems he just landed from the General Pershing and he was full of this incident. Said it was a miracle the boat wasn’t wrecked. The description he gave me of it sounded very much like the Gem.”