girls were wondering if the generous contents of the hampers would serve
even to take the edge off their appetites.

"I don't see why we didn't take your car, Mollie," Grace complained, as
they covered the last stretch of dusty road. "We would have been on the
picnic grounds and had our lunch eaten by this time."

"But just think what's in store for us," Betty reminded her cheerily. "We
need a good appetite to eat up all this lunch."

"Well, I don't know," Grace grumbled back. "It seems to me I had a good
enough appetite for two lunches, each twice as big as this, when we
started."

"Heavens!" cried Frank Haley, who was walking in front with Mollie, "I
see my chances of a square meal dwindling."

"I'm beginning to agree with Grace," grinned Roy Anderson, "that we made a
big mistake in not taking the car."

"Oh, you're all just lazy," was Mollie's accusation. "We haven't been
walking more than an hour and there's the spot, just around that turn in
the road."

"Say," and Will, who had not yet spoken, turned suddenly to Betty, "isn't
this the road where the accident happened that introduced that nice little
old woman--what's her name--"

"Mrs. Sanderson," Betty supplied.