“Sixty-two dollars and sixty-five cents,” announced Louise Brent disconsolately. “I don’t believe we’ll ever get enough!”
“I wonder who gave the five cents,” murmured Lanny.
The Twenty-fifth of October Fund Committee was assembled on the side porch at Brentwood, facing a problem.
“We need about twenty-eight dollars more, don’t we?” asked Gordon. Louise nodded.
“Unless we left off the filing-cabinet,” she said.
“How much less would that make it?”
“We figured the cabinet at eighteen dollars. Maybe it would be less, though.”
“Eighteen,” reminded Morris, “was before we took off thirty per cent. So it would only make it about twelve dollars.”
“Yes, and I so hoped we could get the cabinet too,” said Louise.
“Well, we’ve tackled about everyone in school,” said Gordon. “I can give another dollar, I guess, but that doesn’t help much.”