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"Oh, isn't that great!" exclaimed Anita with genuine enthusiasm. "I love all those things, too. I wish I could belong to such a club." "If you lived anywhere near Deepdale," said Betty warmly, "we should be very glad to have you join us."
"It would give me the greatest of pleasure," said Mollie with a diabolical chuckle as her machine moved off down the street, "to have everyone in Deepdale see me towing your poor little flivver through the town."
Perhaps that is why she was often called "The Little Captain," and certainly she deserved the name. Her father, Charles Nelson, was a wealthy carpet manufacturer, his factory being just outside of Deepdale, and her mother, Rose, was one of the society leaders of the town, though there was no elaborate social system. A regular "Gibson girl," was Grace Ford, not only in form but in face.
It might be that she was wishing she had some such clue so that she could locate her missing parents or relatives, whoever they might be. Mr. Blackford, who had been in Deepdale a few days before setting out for the camp, told the news and gossip of the village. "Did you hear anything as to why Mr. Jallow brought his folks up here?" asked Grace. "Nothing definite no.
Here they had a glorious time bathing, and otherwise enjoying themselves, and also solved the mystery surrounding a box that was found in the sand. During those strenuous days the girls had made many friends, including Allen Washburn, who was now a young lawyer of Deepdale. Allen had become a particular friend of Betty's, and this friendship seemed to be thoroughly reciprocal.
They would never forget that first tramping tour when they had tramped for miles over the country, meeting with a great many unusual adventures on the way, as related in the first volume of this series, entitled, "The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale."
There had been small robberies, of course, but that Hendall's, traditionally the oldest store in Deepdale, should have been treated to such insult, and by a band of roving gypsies, too for every one suspected them from the first why, it was unheard of! incredible! Detectives and sheriff had searched the town from end to end but had found no sign of the missing goods.
During their strenuous adventures the girls had made many friends among the boys and young men of Deepdale, and four of these had asked and been granted permission by the girls to accompany them to Pine Island and pitch their camp in the woods near by. One of the young men was Allen Washburn, a rising young lawyer and a great admirer of Betty.
"Yes, we we are glad to see you," Betty said. "We are going in bathing; won't you come along?" "Ah, thank you, now. I'm afraid it's a little too cool for going into the water to-day; don't you?" "No, we like it!" said Mollie. "How did you leave Deepdale?" "Oh, everything is the same, though it's very lonesome, with you girls away."
When the shouts had died down, Doctor Riley made a speech full of true Irish wit and humor, and pathos, too, telling the girls how deeply Deepdale had appreciated the active and patriotic work they had done for their country in the time of its bitterest need and how very sorry they all were to see them go.
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