Part 20 (1/2)
”We ht have had a couple of quarts of fortune out of that basket just as well as not,” insisted Jack ”I never saw anything so handy”
”Oh, those gypsies are a pest,” declared Mr Rand ”But I ah not to want to offend any of them I claim to be a first-class chaperon--first-class!”
”Are you hurt, Cora?” asked Bess, seeing that Cora was pressing her hand to her lips
”Only scratched from the brush,” and she winced ”Those berry bushes seeainst irls stood close together
”Oh, I didn'twonderful to tell one”
”I wish they would not cross our path so often,” went on the other girl ”Seems to me they have been the one drawback of our entire trip”
”Let us hope that they will now be satisfied,” said Cora with that indefinite ht have been intended
Both girls sighed Then they joined the others, while the old gypsy wo the driver of the bus--”Silent Bill,” they called hirand his horses headed right, also in starting out to describe the wonders and beauties of the White Mountains
It was fun to take the bus ride, and no one waslike sitting down square,” he declared ”Why young folks alant to walk therave is ypsy wohten me,” said Belle to Hazel
”I never saw such a look as she gave Cora! I honestly thought she was going to drop Maybe she----”
”Bleder into her eyes The saht came to ypsies until we get within police precincts We have had enough of the about how the air in those peaks would make a dead man well ”Look at them peaks!” he insisted
”That's what fetches folks up here every summer”
”They fetched me down,” remarked Mr Rand, ”but then I never did care for peaks”
”Now, Mr Rand,” corrected Cora, ”didn't you take a peek into ht it broke down? Seehter they rode along, enjoying the splendid scenery and bracing air, but the gypsy's face was haunting Cora
That evening there was to be a hop at the hotel Asfor home, it was expected that the affair would be entered into with all the energy that could be summoned fro affair until the next suhts held out
Our friends had sos in the sirls can so safely depend upon youth and good manners that simple frocks were pressed literally and physically for the occasion, whereas uests at the Tip-Top were not so self-reliant Motor-o with that peculiar form of beauty, formed a combination beyond dispute
Cora wore her pale yellow poplin, Betty was in all white, of course; Bess looked like an apple blosso star in her dainty blue Hazel ”had on” a light green affair We say ”had on,” for that's the way Hazel had of wearing things--she hated the bother of fixing up
The young s” in their runabout traps, but they did have so, fresh, summer flannels thatthan soular dress suits
”What a wonderful tiht we could have such a jolly good tiular hotel affair”
”Why?” asked Hazel, wondering
”Because there are so many kinds of people that----”