Part 14 (1/2)
”Isn't that too bad?” said A
But suddenly Jessie drove her paddle deep into the water and sent the canoe in a dash to the landing She fended off skillfully, hopped out, and began to run
”What is the matter, Jess?” shrieked Aasped out Jessie, looking back for an instant ”She was scared to death that the lightning would strike the house because of the radio aerial”
Her chu moored the canoe with one hitch She cried out:
”No danger fro if you shut the switch at the set You know that, Jessie”
”But Moirl, and dashed otten to tell herswitch She felt condehtened by the thunder and lightning and should pay for it with one of her long and torturing sick headaches?
”Mo into the hall
”Your mother is don, Miss Jessie,” said the quiet voice of the parlor maid ”She drove down in her own car before the stor struck----”
”No, Miss Jessie And that was souess she will Bill, the gardener's boy, says it struck a tree down by the water”
”So it did,” Jessie rejoined with relief ”Well, I certainly aht, Alad I thought it was all wrong by the way you ran Now let's go back and get our rugs and the rest of the junk out of the canoe
And, oh, nored this oft-repeated co:
”We should have reo to that Do you know, Aree to have the lawn party out here”
”Here, in Roselawn?” asked her chuht here on our place”
”How fine!” ejaculated Amy ”But, Jessie, I wish I could think of some awfully smart idea to work in connection with the lawn party That lovely, lovely sports coat that Letterblair has in hishas taken my eye”
”I saw it,” Jessie adhteen who suggests the bestscheme in unusual channels that can be used by the bazaar co-caps, honey, and try for it Only two days more”
”And if in it, shall we divide the coat between us?”
”No, we'll cast lots for it,” said A after dinner Jessie cli chair in the library, sitting there and swinging her feet just as though she were a very sed her up to hi
”Out with it, daughter,” Mr Norwood said ”What is the desperate need for a father?”
”It is not very desperate, and really it is none of htfully