Part 14 (1/2)
”Jack Kimball, I believe you're just teasing me! You're not in Hayden at all!”
”Where am I, then?” he challenged.
”Right in town, and just as like as not you're calling up from across the street here.”
”Well, I'm not then. You ask central. We really were lost on the road, and had quite a time. I don't know now whether we can be with you to-night or not.”
”Oh, Jack, you must!”
”But if we can't--we can't. If we can find a short cut we'll take it.
Otherwise we'll stay here all night and come on early in the morning.”
”Well, that will have to do then,” said Cora, with a sigh. ”Oh, but we have been so worried. Who was that girl, Jack?”
”I don't know.”
”You don't know?”
”No.”
”Does Ed?”
”Not guilty.”
”The idea! And you gave her a ride?”
”Why not? We met her on the road--she was all alone--it was dark. What else could we do?”
”That's so, I suppose. Where is she now?”
”In the Y. W. C. A.”
”Oh, that's all right then. Listen, you will try to come on to-night; won't you?”
”Sure, Sis.”
”I'm so tired, and it's more of a responsibility than I thought it would be.”
”Well, don't worry, Sis. We're going to get something to eat, and then we'll see what we can do.”
”Eat! You don't mean to say, Jack Kimball, that you're going to stop to _eat_?”
”Well, I guess we are. Haven't had a bite since noon.”
”Why can't you get dinner after you get here?”
”It might be more like breakfast than dinner if we waited,” and Jack laughed. ”No, we're going to eat here and then we'll see what we can do. Don't worry any more. The _Get There_ will go somewhere, anyhow.
Now take it easy.”