“Yes, yes!” chorused the scouts eagerly.
“Well, girls, my birthday happens to be soon, and I feel the same as my Lieutenant does—that it will give the date too much publicity if you all hear it, just now,” retorted Miss Mason.
“Oh, I know when Jimmy’s is. If yours is near that time it ought to be the honeysuckle, too,” said Natalie.
“Just to compel the Captain to reveal the date of her birth, I will tell you, scouts, that my birthday is on the sixteenth of July—very imminent, you see,” said Mrs. James.
“Why! how interesting! That is my birthday, too!” exclaimed the Captain.
“Ho! A double birthday, then,” exclaimed Norma.
“And one we must celebrate without fail,” added Janet.
“Yes, indeed! Our two grand masters of the lodge having a birthday on the same day!” laughed Natalie.
“We’ll have the party, all right, to celebrate, but the Captain has no legend coming to her. She’ll have to take some of Jimmy’s honeysuckle and share the romance with her,” said Norma.
The scouts laughed merrily and when the teasing had subsided somewhat the Captain said: “We ought to know what Solomon’s Seal means—in a legend, I mean.”