“Come on—we will see what it is they caught?” said Eleanor.
“Oh, Nolla, see what Ken gave me for a keep-sake. We found it over at Old Izaac’s,” exclaimed Polly, holding out the strange trinket for her friend to admire.
“Why, it’s a real scarab. Isn’t it a beauty,” said Eleanor, then suddenly wishing Jim had thought of giving her a keep-sake.
“That’s why I wanted you to come out with me. I told Ken you girls’d forget about us the minute we were out of sight, unless you had something to remind you of us,” explained Jim.
“Come on, then, and let Nolla pick out what she wants,” added Ken, laughingly.
“I’ll take the queen’s pearl necklace!” and young hearts made merry of the pearls that had cost so many lives and so much misery.
Eleanor selected a peculiar seal set in a strange stone. “There, I will use it on the first letter I write you,” she said.
“Now that you are here, you may as well jump on the car and take us to the train,” begged Jim.
And this time he had his way. But they did not catch the four o’clock express to New Haven, as it was four-ten when they reached the gates and found them closed.
“Now we’ll have to sit and talk until five,” laughed Jim, exultantly.