CHAPTER XIV
NIAGARA FALLS
"HOW would you two Ethels like to go to Niagara Falls?" asked Mrs. Morton a day or two after the famous flight, as she slipped back into its envelope a letter which she had just read.
"Oh!" cried both girls in long drawn joy.
"This letter is from Mrs. Jackson at Fort Edward in Buffalo," explained Mrs. Morton. "Lieutenant Jackson is your father's best friend, Ethel Blue, and Mrs. Jackson knew your mother and she wants to seize this opportunity of our being near Buffalo this summer to see her friend's little daughter."
"Not—me—and Niagara?" questioned Ethel Brown.
"She has a daughter about your age and she thought it would be a pleasant week-end for all three of you if you two could go to Buffalo on Friday afternoon and stay over Sunday. She will take you on Saturday to see the Falls."
"How perfectly magnificent!" exclaimed Ethel Blue.
"How shall we get to Buffalo?" asked Ethel Brown. "We've never been so far alone."