anxious to know more about your plan of going there. I could not
tell her--having heard only the vaguest rumors about your trip, my
dears."

"Yes, we are going there--or, at least, father expects to get some
orchids there when we are in the West Indies," explained Bess. "But
we really know nothing about the island."

"There seems to be some sort of mystery," put in Belle. "Just before
she fainted, she spoke of her father. Is her name Inez, Mrs.
Kimball?"

"Yes, Inez Ralcanto. She is a Spaniard. But I had rather let her
tell you herself, as she is anxious to do. As soon as yow are
rested--"

"Oh, we're not tired!" interrupted Walter. "That is, unless Jack
feels--"

"Oh, never too tired to listen to a pretty girl--especially when she
is called Inez," broke in the invalided hero. "Still, perhaps Sis
and the twins had better have a first whack at her. I fancy we
fellows would look better with some of the car grime removed," and he
sank rather wearily into a chair.

"You poor boy! You are tired!" expostulated his mother, as she put
her arms about him. "You had better go to your room, and lie down.
We'll have a light dinner served soon. You'll stay, of course," and
she included the Robinson twins as well as Walter and Harry in her
invitation.