To be rid of that nightmare. To have made complete amends for that ticket money!
Now she could face the world! Now she could go back to Flosston and find Dagmar Brodix!
CHAPTER XXIII
RAINBOW'S END
It was a gala day in Flosston. True Tred Troop and Venture Troop Girl Scouts seemed to comprise a veritable army, as the girls in their brown uniforms congregated and scattered, then scattered and congregated, in that way girls have of imitating the "inimitable" bee.
Long before the hour set for assembly on the green, knots and groups gathered there, and when finally Captain Clark and Captain Cosgrove appeared (we prefer to call each her separate captain), both True Treds and Venture troops were ready and eager to start for River Bend Woods.
Grace, Cleo, Madaline and Margaret had managed to "fall in" in one line, so that the march out was unspoiled by difficulties in conversation, which would have followed any other formation.
"If only—if only—" faltered Grace; then she laughed rather sheepishly.
"But we may see him," surmised Cleo.
"Any man or beast in that woods will come out of his lair when we get there!" predicted Margaret.