will have the family tree along and urge us to stop overnight at
every gnarl on the `trunk.'"

"We might have asked Ida and Sid," reflected Belle aloud,
sympathetically.

"Yes," Bess almost shouted, "and have them veto every single plan.
Besides, there are to be no boys on this trip; Lady Isabel please
take notice!"

"As if I wanted boys!" sneered her sister.

"As if you could have them if you did!" fired back Bess in that
tantalizing way that only sisters understand, only sisters enjoy,
and only sisters know how to operate successfully.

"Peace! peace!" called Cora. "If Belle wants boys she may have
them. I am chairman of the acting committee, and if boys do not
act I would like to know exactly what they do."

"No boys!" faltered Hazel, who, not owning a machine, had not as
yet heard all the details of the proposed three-days' tour of the
motor girls.

"Nary a one!" returned Bess, now about to start.

"If we had boys along," explained Cora, "they would claim the
glory of every spill, every skid, every upset and every `busted
tire.' We want some little glory ourselves," and at this she
threw in the clutch, and, with a gentle effort, the Whirlwind