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But Miss Octavia saw what she had never noticed before that Tommy's eyes were bright and frank, that Tommy's chin was a good chin, and that Tommy's smile had something very pleasant about it. "You're fond of flowers, aren't you, Tommy?" she asked. "You bet," was Tommy's inelegant but heartfelt answer. "Well," said Miss Octavia slowly, "I have a brother down at Chelton who is a florist.
"Never can find her when I particularly want to, but if she is in Chelton I'm going to hunt her up." "Won't she be at the sanitarium?" asked Cora, and she wondered why her own voice sounded so strained. "I think not," he replied. "Clip is a poster-girl, in our parlance, and we don't let them in on real cases." "Poster?" asked Cora.
"Not exactly great," answered Mr. Foster, "but I have played some. My interest in sports has rather kept me away from society. That accounts for me not being better acquainted in Chelton, or perhaps " "Hello there!" came a hail from the road. "Jack and Walter!" exclaimed Cora, as at that moment another machine came along and drew up alongside the fence which separated the highway from the meadow.
Then he turned his gaze on Cora, and the beautiful girl could not repress a shudder as she felt the bold glance of the man. "Oh, I'm going to turn around," declared Jack. "I'm going back to Chelton. That's where you're headed for, I take it?" "Sure. That's where I'm goin', and I'm tired, too. I've had a long walk this mornin', and " "Are you working in the blacksmith shop?" asked Walter quietly.
"Oh, I don't know," spoke Harry, diffidently. He had not known the "Cheerful Chelton Crowd" as long as had Walter. "Perhaps I'd better put up at the hotel " "You'll do nothing of the sort!" broke in Jack. "You and Wally will bunk in here. You forget Inez is due to give a rehearsal of the 'Prisoner of Sea Horse Island, and you want to be here." "Don't joke, Jack!
It's too bad we haven't Sid and Ida along to help hunt for it. And the Robinson girls, and Mary. The more eyes, the better. I'll go on to New City, if you'll make a search on the road from here to Chelton, Jack." "Oh, I don't know as it would do any good." "It won't do any harm," said Walter. "That is, if Cora isn't too tired." "Oh, I should love to go. I can't get enough of my new car.
"Perhaps that would be the easiest way," suggested timid Marita Osborne. "It certainly would create a sensation in Chelton," murmured Belle, as she looked at her plump sister. "But come, we really must help you, Cora. It's too bad we took advantage of your good nature, and brought our things here to pack. We might better have done it at our own homes."
That settled it. Some days lay between the proposition and the fete, and this time was to be spent on the road, as the girls had yet some miles to cover before they would turn back toward Chelton. There was a visit to be made at a ruins in Clayton; this was an underlined note of Ray's on the itinerary. Then Maud wanted so much to see a real watering place in full swing.
"Yes, there's Mabel Blake hurrying after us," said Belle. "She looks excited." The girl who was running along the path did indeed "look excited." The motor girls waited. "Oh, I thought I would never catch up to you!" Mabel panted. "You do walk at such a pace!" "Why, how are you, Mabel?" asked Cora graciously. "I heard you had gone back to Chelton." "We did intend to but we haven't," she faltered.
"Oh, let's try a little longer," begged Cora. "Well, if he dropped it before he got here, or after he left, we might as well make the entire trip to New City, and then reverse and go to Chelton," went on Jack. "And we can't look over every inch of all the distance." "We can drive along slowly," was Cora's idea. "The wallet is so large that it could easily be seen.
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