Part 9 (1/2)
”But I know, no ton will always care for me,” Amy went on ”If it were not for that I don't knohat I'd do Now let's talk of so more pleasant”
”Oh, this isn't unpleasant for us!” Betty hastened to assure her chum
”Only of course we kno you must feel about it If we could only help you in some way!”
”I'h”
”It's like one of those queer puzzle stories, that end with a bu--like 'The Lady or the Tiger,'”
asserted Mollie ”I can't bear theht and it sets ently ”But I don't see how it can ever be known on which baby the envelope belonged”
”What became of the other baby?” asked Grace
”I never heard, and the man who rescued me did not know either,”
answered Amy ”He turned us both over to the relief authorities, and, assuton, because of their address on the envelope, on ht to call hih he may not be--and he has kept me ever since”
”But there is just as much chance that you were the baby on whom the paper was pinned, as to think that you were not,” came somewhat positively froreed ”But, please, let's talk about going caet that I may be a--nobody”
”You'll never be that, Amy--to us!” declared Mollie, positively
”Thank you, dear”
”The question still to be settled,” broke in Betty, detero to camp Shall we skate or sled or----”
”Ice boat!” cried the voice of Will Ford at the door ”Ladies, excuse me, but I have arrived at a most propitious tiest--an ice boat!”
They looked at hilances, and he added:
”Shall I explain?”
”As it seeed his sister ”Did you bring any chocolates?”
”I did”
”Pay as you enter,” said Mollie, laughingly
CHAPTER VII
OFF FOR CAMP
Will entered with the air of one conferring a favor, and successfully evaded the efforts of his sister to take away a certain box he was carrying
”Have patience, little sister et your desires”