“Oh, not far,” Connie assured her. “Veve and I don’t mind a bit going by bus. We’ll be back long before dark.”
“If you can wait until tomorrow, I’ll have the car.”
“We don’t dare wait, Mother. If we do, other folks will get the job instead of our Brownie organization.”
Mrs. Williams knew that this might be true. So after thinking a moment, she said Connie might go.
The two girls wore their Brownie beanies and put on light coats over their brown pinchecked uniforms. Mrs. Williams gave Connie enough bus fare for both girls.
Veve frequently took a bus downtown and knew which one they must catch to reach the outskirts of Rosedale.
“It’s marked ‘Crosstown,’” she told Connie. “I don’t think the bus runs very often though. We’ll have to watch sharp or we may miss it.”
In about ten minutes along came a yellow bus which had “Crosstown” printed on a card in the front window.
When it stopped at the curb, Veve and Connie climbed aboard. They dropped their fare into the box.