“Then use my car on the nights you have to go to school. I’ll send down my Sedan, after this, because the butler understands its tricks thoroughly. He seldom has anything to do on those evenings you go to school, and he can oblige us by driving that car should I need Henri for this car.”
The girls thanked him again, and then hurried indoors.
“Where have you been so late, dears?” cried Anne, anxiously, as they came in.
“We told you we would be late,” began Polly.
“But it is past twelve, now; I was about to call up the police-station at Ninth street, and find out if anything had happened.”
The two girls laughed and Eleanor pulled Anne’s ear playfully, as she said: “Now, silly, what could happen to us!”
CHAPTER X—CHRISTMAS AND WHAT IT BROUGHT
Anne never suspected that Polly and Eleanor had had a “hold-up” at any time, but she wondered why Mr. Dalken should be so kind as to loan his car to the girls on school-nights. Polly explained simply. “Why, he never forgot what we did for Elizabeth, and when he learned we were trudging back and forth alone, he just wouldn’t have it.”
“He said he couldn’t bear the thought of our even having to travel in the subway, alone, late at night,” added Eleanor.
So Anne, although she read about the two ruffians who had tried to rob a wealthy broker, one night, never dreamed that her two girls were victimized before Mr. Dalken appeared to rescue them.