"
"Especially when Allen is around," taunted Mollie, as she slowed up her
car near the sidewalk.
"Come on, fellows!" exulted Will. "We're going to have a ride in the joy
wagon."
"The chocolates," Grace reminded him, coolly, as he started to get in
between her and Amy.
"We'll buy them when we get out a ways," he promised.
"Get them at Lee's," she stipulated. "His are best."
"Did you ever see such a sister!" cried Will. "She has no heart! Very
well, run us around to Lee's, Mollie. I'll get the candy if it--breaks
me," and he began searching through his pockets, picking up bits of
change on the way.
The other boys took their seats, and soon the machine was moving again,
a stop being made for the chocolates. Grace insisted on going into the
store with her brother.
"If I didn't he'd palm off the twenty-cent kind on us, and tell us they
were Lee's best," she said to her chums.
"You eat so many of them that you can't tell the difference--your taste
is jaded," taunted Will.
"Can't I, though?" replied Grace. "Well, I'm not going to give you the
chance to try me. We'll have the best!"
Again they were under way, Grace passing around the box of
confectionery.
"Shall we tell the boys about Mr. Lagg?" asked Betty of Mollie, beside
whom she rode on the front seat, the boys and other girls being in the
tonneau.
"Just as you like.
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