"
"I should think you would be. Poor little Dodo! I'd give anything to
hear her say now 'Has oo dot any tandy? '"
"Don't," spoke Betty in a low tone to Grace, for she saw the tears in
Mollie's eyes.
"It was the strangest thing how Stone and Kennedy should turn out to
be the two chaps in the auto," remarked Will, to change the subject.
"And you have never let on that Grace was the girl on the horse?"
"Never," answered Amy. "Don't say after this that girls can't keep a
secret."
Frank was to watch the first part of the night, to be relieved by
Allen, and the latter by Will.
"For, from what the girls say, Prince has been in the habit of coming
rather late," Will explained, "and he's more likely to let me catch
him than if you fellows tried it. So I'll take last watch."
Frank's vigil was unrewarded, and when he awakened Allen, who sat up,
sleepy-eyed, there was nothing to report. Allen found it hard work to
keep awake, but managed to do so by drinking cold coffee.
"Anything doing, old man?" asked Will, as, yawning, he got on some of
the clothes he had discarded, the more comfortably to lie down on the
cot.
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