Cora tried her best to be cheerful. She had definite ideas about
a friend's duty to a friend, and no one could say she failed in
that duty. Why should she think of Jack and Clip and Wren when
she was captain of the Motor Girls' Club, and they expected a good
time on their initial run?

"Oh, I am so glad everything happened!" exclaimed Tillie, who was
in the Whirlwind; "for if everything did not happen we never could
have come along."

"And we never could have had all our camping things," put in
Gertrude. "I am just dying to get out on the grass and light up
under the kettles. That was a very bright idea of Adele's to
fetch along part of the tea-house outfit."

"Won't it be jolly to build miniature caves to keep the wind from
the lamp?" suggested Cora. "I tell you, after all, the motor
girls were poor housekeepers - we had to take lessons from our
business friends."

This pleased Tillie immensely. She was the sort of girl who is
glad to prove a theory, and in keeping the tea-house she had
proven that girls - mere girls - are not always sawdust dolls.

Daisy was speeding up her machine to speak with Cora.

"There's Cedar Grove over there!" she shouted; "and Aunt May's is
only four miles from the turn in the road."

"But we are going to lunch on the road," replied Cora. "The girls