As Mollie had said, the details of the tour were now practically
settled. Mollie's cousin, Mrs. Jane Mackson, had arranged to accompany
the girls as chaperone, and on such times as she could not be with them
they were to stop over night at the homes of friends or relatives.
They did not arrange for any definite rules about their trips. It was to
be a pleasure jaunt, and at times they would cover more ground than
others. Nor were any fixed dates set as to when they would be at certain
places. As Mollie aptly expressed it:
"It's so much nicer not to know exactly what you are going to do, and
then if anything comes up to make you change your plans you're not
disappointed. We're going to be as care-free as we can."
And so the tour was laid out. The girls would take with them suit-cases
with sufficient change of raiment to do them until other things could be
forwarded from their homes to various designated points. Occasionally
they would take a run back to Deepdale to renew necessaries.
The farthest point they would reach would be to visit an aunt of
Mollie's in Midvale, about two hundred miles from Deepdale. But this
would come at the end of the tour.
"Well, I think we are all ready to start!" exclaimed Mollie one morning,
when the three girls, and her cousin, had assembled at her house. "Have
you everything you need?"
"Not nearly--but all I can carry," announced Betty.
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