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At the station where they were to take the train for Surfwood, Mr. Fayre met them. "Well," he exclaimed. "So I am to take the responsibility of these two beautiful young ladies." "Yes," rejoined Mr. Rose; "but I'm glad to tell you that they are not really difficult to manage. They have behaved most properly all day and honestly I hate to give them up.
"You'll have your visit with me, before we go back to Berwick. I wonder if you will like Surfwood, Dotty?" "I'll love the seashore, I know; but I don't know about liking the big hotel. Don't you have to keep dressed up all the time and all that?" "Why, we don't wear party clothes all the time. Of course we can't go around in an old serge skirt and middy blouse as we do here.
"And anyway I took her doll, and I lost it for her, and it's up to me to get her another. And that's all there is about that. I've got my gold piece with me, too, and I'm going straight down to the shop and get the doll now." Dotty was determined, and so the three went to the shop. There was only one place in Surfwood where toys and fancy goods were sold.
"'Course I'll have a good time, if I'm visiting you. But, you see, we were a whole month later than usual coming up here this summer, and now to cut two weeks off the other end makes an awfully short season for dear old Crosstrees. Why do they call it Surfwood, Dolly; are there any woods there?" "Yes, indeed; not far back from the beach there are lots of woods.
Dolly laughed and dimpled, but stuck to her decision and soon the crowd left the shop, carrying the important purchases with them. Back at the hotel, they were exhibited, and Mrs. Fayre and Trudy smiled a little at the selection, but said they were glad that the girls had bought what they wanted. Days at Surfwood passed happily and swiftly.
Dolly did not entirely share Dotty's enthusiasm, but she realised the wonderful beauty of the scene as she looked back at the lake with its wooded shores and hills rising to the high mountains. "It is splendid!" she said, very honestly, as she gazed at the beautiful landscape. "I'm afraid, Dot, that you won't have a good time down at Surfwood. It's awfully different, you know."
How soon do we see the ocean?" "Very soon, now. We'll get to Surfwood about six, but we'll see the ocean long before then, there are so many beach stations." As they neared Surfwood, Mr. Fayre threw aside his papers and looked out for the girls again. He was a most courteous man and politely assisted them with their various belongings, treating them more as grown ladies than as children.
So on the day of departure Dotty and Dolly bade good-bye to their brothers and to Mrs. Rose and Genie, and in care of Mr. Rose started for New York and thence down to Surfwood, a resort on the New Jersey coast, where the Fayre family were staying at a hotel. "Oh, don't you just hate to leave it?" exclaimed Dotty as the motor-boat took them swiftly down the lake.
And we've got a lot of little fancy pins, both of us. What do you say to a gold pencil for each?" "Only they never write very well; the leads are so hard." "That's so. Well maybe beads, or how about a lace collar?" "Let's wait till we get down to Surfwood and ask Trudy. She'll tell us something nice, and maybe we'll buy something there, or else in New York as we go through on the way down."
"Perhaps you won't like Surfwood a bit, and you won't want to go there next summer, and if you don't, of course I won't come up here. You look awfully well in that new suit, Dotty." "Hope I do, for it doesn't feel very good. Collar's too stiff." Dotty wriggled with a feeling of discomfort that the first wearing of a new garment often brings.
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