Part 5 (1/2)
”Thanks! So nice?”
”I shan't tell you!” and she blushed ”But where are you going?”
”Walking with you!”
To if not bold
”Hadn't you better wait until you're asked?” she retorted, et an invitation So I' to invite you in here to have an ice cream soda,”
and he and Miss Nestor were soon seated at a table in a candy shop
Tolanced toward the door, and started at the sight of athe place
”What's the matter?” asked Mary ”Did you drop some ice cream, Tom?”
”No, Mary But that man--”
Mary turned in time to see an excited lance at Toirl asked
”I--er--oh, souess I don't,” said Tom, quickly ”Have some more crealad she did not care for any, as he was anxious to get outside, and have a look at the nized the face as the same that had peered in hisBut when he and Miss Nestor reached the front of the shop the strange uess he came in to cool off after his run,” mused Tom, ”but when he saw ton? He's a persistent individual if it was he”
”Are you undertaking any new adventures, To to Peru”
”Peru!” she cried ”Oh, what a long way to go! And when you get there will you write tostamps, and I haven't any from Peru”
”Is that--er--the only reason you want me to write?” asked Tom
”No,” said Mary softly, as she ran up the walk
Tom smiled as he turned away
Three days later he received a box from New York It contained the saan his experi the hard stone
”It is coet an explosive that will successfully blast that, To inventor
Chapter V