summer, and you have made up the required pennies. Now, don't you
think it would be perfectly splendid to take the run with us?"

Every one instantly agreed that this would be the very thing, and
in spite of the hesitation of Adele and Tillie, who argued that it
might not be agreeable to bring strangers into the homes where
others had been expected, it was finally settled that the party
should wait until the next morning, when the tea-house girls would
be ready to start off with them.

Nor were the arrangements without a certain happy possibility -
there were two other girls waiting to take up that same little
Grotto - to earn college money, as had Tillie and Adele.

"Rena and Margaret will be here first thing in the morning,"
announced Adele, after her telephone talk with Rena, "and they are
perfectly delighted. Oh, isn't it just splendid!"

Then Cora had messages to send. She called up Jack, but only got
the maid in answer. She called up Walter, and he also was out.
Finally she called up Ed. She waited until she felt he would be
at his dinner quarters, and she was not disappointed in getting
his own voice in reply.

He told her that everything was all right - that Clip was with
little Wren, who had been very ill since the loss of her book, and
that Paul Hastings was no worse. This last Cora considered
evasive, but had to be content, for Ed would give no more definite
information.