“But, Dr. Wright, we would lots rather have you, if you don’t mind!” exclaimed Douglas. “Any of our kinsmen that we might call on would insist upon our coming to live with them or make us go to some stuffy boarding house or something. They would not look at it as I believe you would at all. We have a scheme, too, but we want to hear yours first.”
“My scheme was, as I say, first to rent your house, furnished, and then all of you, with some suitable older person and some man whom you can trust, go and camp out on the side of the mountain in Albemarle. What do you say to it?” The girls burst out laughing, even Helen.
“Dr. Wright, this is absolutely uncanny!” exclaimed Douglas. “That is exactly what we were planning!”
“Only we were going you some better and were to have boarders,” drawled Nan.
“Boarders, eh, and what do you know about keeping boarders?” laughed the doctor.
“We know enough not to do the way we have been done by at summer boarding houses where we have been sometimes.”
“Well, all I can say is that I think you are a pretty spunky lot. Please tell me which one of you thought up this plan. There must surely have been a current of mental telepathy flowing from one of you girls to me. It was you, I fancy, Miss Douglas.”
“No, I am never so quick to see a way out. It was Helen.”
“Yes, Helen thought of it, but I came mighty near doing it,” declared Lucy. “I would have done it all the way but I went to sleep.”