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"It's all right," Mollie was saying, "to give our time and labor and everything like that, but the Red Cross needs money. If we could only find some way to raise it!" The four girls were seated on the porch of Betty's house in Deepdale, busy as always, with their knitting.
The four girls had gathered once more on Betty's porch and were regarding each other mournfully. "Do?" echoed Grace. "Why, we can't do anything, of course, but let them go." "But it won't seem at all like Deepdale!" mourned Amy. "Well, the only thing I can see that we can do," sighed Mollie, "is to become Red Cross nurses and go across with them."
Ford, for he knew the story, as did many in Deepdale. "She ought to get out and away from the influences around here. Stonington ought to take her away." He was musing for a moment. Then a queer expression came over his face. "Girls!" he cried. "I think I have something that will just fill the bill!" "Oh, Papa!" cried Grace, clapping her hands.
Frank retorted scathingly. "Now we'll have to hike along and trust to luck. Nobody knows where we will end up." "Well, you needn't blame it on me," Roy shouted wrathfully. "I couldn't be expected to see twenty miles down the road from Deepdale." "Nobody accused you of it," Frank answered, in the same belligerent voice. "But as long as you had the chart you might have thought far enough "
In addition to this Deepdale is situated in the heart of New York state and is only a hundred-and-fifty-mile run from the city of that name. Thus one can easily see that Deepdale is a very desirable place in which to live. At least that is what the four Outdoor Girls thought. And since they had spent most of their lives there, they certainly ought to know!
Amy's newly-found brother paid one visit to the bungalow in the orange grove, but could not stay long, as his business was increasing. He reported all well in Deepdale. "By the way," he said with a chuckle, "those old friends of yours, Alice Jallow and Kittie Rossmore, have started a sort of automobile club. I guess they're trying to rival you."
The fame of Betty's lawn party had spread all over Deepdale, and countless smaller affairs on the same order had been given. As imitation is always the sincerest flattery, the girls were delighted. "For we have the fun of knowing we started it," Mollie had said. "Yes," said Betty.
Betty's cousin lived there, and had planned a round of gaieties for her young relative and friends. They were to stay three days, and from there would keep on to Deepdale, thus completing the circuit they had mapped out. So far they had been very fortunate, not much rain coming to interfere with their progress.
And certainly it was a town of much natural beauty, to which a certain amount of civic pride added, had made for local enjoyment in parks, memorials and statues. Though there were only about fifteen thousand residents, there was a spirit about Deepdale that many a fair-sized city might have envied a spirit of progress.
Nor were the other girls concerned with anything save the finding of the five hundred dollar bill, which absorbed everything else for the time being. "Who could have lost it?" wondered Mollie. "There aren't so many persons in Deepdale who can afford to throw away money like this," added Amy. "It wasn't thrown away it was lost," declared Betty, "and we must find the owner if we can."
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