“I must be certain that the steps are strong enough to bear so much weight,” she warned. “I’ll climb up first. Then if it appears safe, you all may come.”
“Hurry! Hurry!” urged Jane, who now had forgotten that she ever had made fun of Veve or Sunny.
As Miss Gordon started up the steps, Veve popped her head out of a window.
“It’s super—simply super!” she yelled down. “The house has a window seat and a cupboard!”
The other Brownies by this time were jumping up and down in their excitement. Unable to wait for Miss Gordon to give the word, Eileen started up a few steps.
“The stairway is very sturdily built,” the leader called down. “You may come up one at a time. Eileen first, since she is half way up.”
Each girl took her turn. Jane, the disbeliever, was the last one to climb the stairway.
As she viewed the interior of the neat playhouse, her breath was quite taken away.
“Oh, this place will look grand when we bring dishes and books and put curtains at the window!” she exclaimed.
“But is it really ours?” returned Miss Gordon quietly. “I can’t understand how this house came to be here. It is well built, evidently by a skilled carpenter.”