talked, while waiting for the time to retire. The boys were to make
the attempt to capture Prince.

CHAPTER XXIV

THE GHOST CAUGHT

"When do you expect to hear about little Dodo?" asked Grace, as the
girls sat together on a log in front of the fire, "like roosting
chickens," Will was ungallant enough to remark.

"Almost any day now," replied Mollie. "They were to wait for the most
favorable time for the operation, and the specialist, so mamma wrote,
could not exactly fix on the day. But I am anxious to hear."

"I should think you would be. Poor little Dodo! I'd give anything to
hear her say now 'Has oo dot any tandy? '"

"Don't," spoke Betty in a low tone to Grace, for she saw the tears in
Mollie's eyes.

"It was the strangest thing how Stone and Kennedy should turn out to
be the two chaps in the auto," remarked Will, to change the subject.
"And you have never let on that Grace was the girl on the horse?"

"Never," answered Amy. "Don't say after this that girls can't keep a
secret."

Frank was to watch the first part of the night, to be relieved by
Allen, and the latter by Will.