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"That's exactly what she did look like," said Adele, laughing. "I must tell Hester that! She's a school-girl cousin of mine, Mr. Cameron, and if she were here, she'd enjoy this two-story joke as well as any of us." Cameron stayed to dinner, as he said, to make his peace with Mr. Kenerley when he came home, but really because he wanted to remain with the pleasant house party.
I'll get out here, and you go along, Patty, and have a nice little maiden meditation all to yourself, and come back fancy free, but don't stay out too late." Kenerley got out of the car and went back to the house, and Patty drove on alone. It was just what she wanted, an opportunity to think over what Philip had said. And she was fond of motoring alone, and an experienced driver.
"Now that I've new servants, and such good ones, I'd like to have you all stay on indefinitely." "There are others," suggested Jim Kenerley. "I know, but I don't want others. This crowd has become so chummy and nice it's a pity to break it up. Aren't you sorry to go, Bill?" "Haven't gone yet!" said Farnsworth, cheerfully.
"Trust me for that, Mrs. Kenerley. I'm so delighted with the invitation, I'm afraid I'll get here too soon." "Come up on the noon train. The May party's at four o'clock. And now you must fly or you'll lose your train." "Parting is SUCH sweet sorrow," said Kit, as he took Patty's hand, to say good-bye to her last.
"I have to take the six-thirty train, but you others go on." "Too bad, old fellow," said Kenerley; "wish you could go. But the rest of you will, won't you?" They all accepted the invitation, and went away to dress. Patty hung back a moment to say good-bye to Bill, but Daisy forestalled her. "Oh, Bill," she said, "walk with me as far as the rose garden. I want to say my farewells to you."
So carefully was the measuring done that at a short distance it looked exactly like a parcheesi board, except the colouring. "Now," said Cromer, when the ground was ready, "each of you four 'Players' must fix up your corner 'Homes' with a different colour." So Daisy chose pink, and Mona blue, and Mr. Kenerley yellow, and Laurence Cromer green.
While he fitted a new pane of glass in place of the broken one, Mona expressed her opinion of the escapade of the night before. "It was all your fault, Bill!" she exclaimed. "You ought not to have driven so fast and so far." "I know it, ma'am," said Big Bill, looking like a culprit schoolboy. "I'm awful 'shamed of myself!" "And well you may be!" chimed in Adele Kenerley.
Then Jim Kenerley threw, but threw only a three and a four, so he had to wait another turn. The game proved to be great fun. A five thrown allowed another counter started out, and all other throws meant movements of the counters. A counter on a "Safety Spot" was secure against invaders, but on an unprotected square one might be sent back "Home" to start all over again.
The game won't take long, once we get started. Now, I'll select four players. Mona will be one, and Daisy Dow, Jim Kenerley and I will be the others." Mona was already at the telephone, and the other selected players drew around Cromer to learn what they were to do. "It's going to be the greatest fun ever," he declared. "If we can't get red ribbon, we'll take twine. Guess it'll be better, anyhow.
Cameron, we'd like to have you come back on Saturday for our May-day celebration." "Will I!" said Kit; "you're awfully good to ask me, Mrs. Kenerley, after you've discovered what a wicked young man I am, thus to follow up invitations from strange ladies. But you see the photograph that came to me was so charming that the temptation was irresistible."
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