“Next year, if Uncle Peter still has his nursery, I will give you hundreds of bulbs,” Hanny promised.
As the children turned away from the little house, they were startled to hear Jane calling to them from the roadway.
“Hey, hurry up!” she shouted. “We’ve been waiting nearly ten minutes! Hurry!”
Vevi and Connie hastily said goodbye to Hanny, reminding her not to forget the scheduled Brownie Scout meeting at the library. Then they ran off to join their friends who were ready to start home.
“Say, where did you girls go anyhow?” Jane demanded suspiciously as Vevi and Connie rushed up breathlessly.
“It’s a secret,” chuckled Vevi.
All the way home, the other Brownies teased her to reveal where she and Connie had been. But Vevi would not.
Not until they were alone again, did the two girls so much as mention the locked room.
Both were hopeful that Peter would win the blue ribbon and that his bag of precious bulbs truly would become a bag of treasure.
On Wednesday after school all the Brownie Scouts gathered at the public library to cut and paste tulip decorations for the windows.