But Dorothy did not turn over to rest. Instead, she lay wide awake, the “Hunter’s Moon” shining full in her window, and making queer pictures on the light-tinted walls.
To take Miette—and to take Urania (for my readers must have guessed that the “queer boy” was none other than the gypsy girl), now seemed to Dorothy something more than a mere matter of going from Glenwood to North Birchland. Miette would be no trouble, of course—but Urania?
A reward had been offered for the capture of the gypsy girl. And country officers are “keen” where a cash reward is in question. Certainly Urania would have to be disguised. She could not wear the old torn boy’s clothes in which she had come to Glenwood—Dorothy could not travel with her in that garb. She was too small to be dressed as a woman—anyone could see that disguise, thought Dorothy. But one thing seemed possible to do to work out the plan of getting into North Birchland without detection. Urania must impersonate Tavia, she must dress in Tavia’s clothes, and look as much as she could be made to look like Tavia Travers.
That much settled, Dorothy bade the “Hunter’s Moon” good-night, and passed from the realm of waking dreams into the depths of slumber visions.
It was a very early morning call that Dorothy made at the room across the hall with her news for Miette.
“You are to come to the Cedars with me,” Dorothy told the surprised little French girl, “and perhaps Aunt Winnie will take us over to New York.”
“Oh, how splendid!” exclaimed Miette, clapping her hands. “I may then see Marie?”
“Well, I cannot tell, of course,” replied Dorothy, “but I always go to New York when I am at the Cedars, and I am sure Aunt Winnie will want to go,” she added, thinking of Mrs. Pangborn’s message to Mrs. White. “Perhaps we will all go together.”
“It will be splendid,” declared Miette. “I can hardly do anything until I am sure—about my aunt.”
“That is the reason Mrs. Pangborn has been so good and lets you have the holiday,” said Dorothy. “I promised we would both work doubly hard when we came back.”