[CHAPTER XIII]
TOM SEES SOMETHING
“What do you suppose keeps him?” asked Sid.
“Who?” inquired Phil, as he strolled beside Helen Newton.
“Tom, of course. He ought to be here by this time.”
“Maybe he missed a car,” suggested Ruth.
“He’s had time to get three or four,” declared Frank. “I believe he’s playing some joke on us.”
“Then Madge Tyler is also,” spoke Mabel Harrison. “I wonder if she——”
“There she is now!” suddenly exclaimed Helen.
“And someone is with her. It isn’t——” began Ruth.
She stopped in sudden confusion, and all eyes were turned toward a little open place in the grove of trees, where two figures were seen—a youth and a maiden. And, though the girl was undoubtedly Madge, the youth was not Tom Parsons, and that fact held a world of meaning to all of them.