"I'll be stronger then!" she said.




CHAPTER XI

POLITE KIDNAPPERS


But it seems that breakfast "hath charms to sooth the savage breast," for
after Mollie had attacked and conquered the appetizing fruit and cereal,
ham and eggs, she seemed to forget all about her dire threat and smiled
amiably at her intended victim across the table.

"How long will it take you to get ready, Grace?" she inquired. "Can you do
it while Betty and I go around to the garage and back out the car?"

"Let Amy help you with the car this time," Betty objected before Grace
could reply. "I want to ask Mrs. Sanderson to go with us."

Mollie clapped her hand over her mouth in a gesture of dismay.

"Goodness," she reproached herself, "I almost forgot about her. Yes, go
ahead Betty and do your best to get her. I know it would do her good. But
you had better take Amy with you to help persuade Mrs. Sanderson. Amy and
you together are a pair that will be hard to refuse. There goes Mr.
Bretton now! He's so grateful for what we girls have done for him here--as
though it were anything at all--that he'd do far more than help get the