As only girls know how to show affection, this sort was now fairly showered upon the rescued girl.
"It almost seemed worth while to have been lost," Cora managed to say.
"When shall we hear all about it?" asked Belle.
"Not to-night," objected the twin sister. "It is enough to know that we have Cora."
The automobiles were rumbling on. Every mile post took them farther from the gypsies, and nearer the hotel.
"Hey there!" called Mr. Rand. "You boys keep a tight hold!"
"Aye, aye, sir!" shouted back Walter. "Seems to me Mr. Rand is getting very gay," he remarked to Betty.
"He simply means," said the dutiful daughter, "that you must look carefully after the girls. They might be after us—the gypsies, I mean.
"Oh," said Walter, in that way that Walter had.