“Now I will have to keep my vow,” wailed the latter, “and follow that wretched girl all over the world!”
“What for?” asked Mrs. Norwood, with an indulgent smile, for she was well used to Amy’s extravagances.
“To recover my perfectly good five dollars, of course! Oh, dear, what a bore!”
“Oh, so a girl palmed this off on you! Suppose you tell me some more about it,” said Mr. Norwood. “I am intensely interested.”
Jessie and Amy told him about the strange girl who had accosted them before the Dainties Shop and gave as faithful a description as they could of her. Then they suddenly remembered the interrupted radio concert and dashed off to Jessie’s room to enjoy what was left of it.
Madame Elva, a great favorite of the girls, at the broadcasting station of the Stratford Electric Company, gave several charming selections and the remainder of the program was so unusually fine and interesting that the girls became completely absorbed and forgot for the time all such matters as tall thin girls and troublesome five-dollar bills.
It was not till the following morning that Jessie revived the subject. The four of them, Jessie, Amy, her brother Darry, and Burd Alling were sitting on the Norwood veranda talking over plans for the trip to Forest Lodge. The girls had already, earlier in the day, talked with Miss Alling over the telephone.
It was a fine morning and the handsome Norwood estate had never looked pleasanter and more luxurious than it did in the full glare of the morning sunlight.
The smooth sweep of lawn, sloping down to the broad, shaded boulevard, was dotted with flowering shrubs. Beside the house and a little to the rear, began the beautiful rose gardens which were the pride of Mrs. Norwood’s heart, and of all Roselawn as well.
In fact, this section where the Norwoods and the Drews lived had been dubbed Roselawn by reason of the beautiful and gorgeous rose gardens that abounded in that district.