The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View; Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand

ing to take

, there aren't

two trunks for those dresses. Oh, where did you get tha

question over her hip, holding it up for Mollie to see. The two girls w

d, or to "mere man," it looked as though nothing was being done except

n interval of her own packing, to get ready to go to Ocean View, had gasped in wonder at the c

ks and toss them into a trunk. Then I get Felice to jump on the lid with me, and-presto! the tr

etty. "I suppose it does take a long time

reed Mollie. "That's why you always look

you can take an old piece of cloth and a couple of faded flowers, and make of it a hat that looks prettier t

ck motion she draped one of Betty's garments about her shou

t ever look like that

w Paul and Dodo will have my room in dreadful shape. They are probably, at this minute, parading around in my best frocks, playing soldie

aning out of the window of her room, and breathing in de

red Mollie. "It is altogeth

should take, while Mollie hastened home. But Betty had not long

directed the maid, and the tall, willowy one ent

thes. "All dressed up and no place to go, Grace! What does it mean? No, thank

ilk petticoat, as I spilled a lot of chocolate down my other. I sent it away to be cl

do," answered Be

u are going at it wholesale; aren't you?" as

know. And I don't know what to take and what to le

doing. Only I haven't really begun yet

, Grace dear. My brain isn't capable

ully selecting a chocolate from a bag. "Ar

Will? No,

mean this candy. It's del

Betty. "You haven't a

, no! But about Will. Did you

rcy, no! Is i

cts the funniest of anyone I ever saw. He has

her picture that he puts in

, this is a nougat!" she exclaimed in rapture, as he

ed Betty, foldin

nt on Grace. "I found one of the books where he had laid it down

quickly. "I'm not

d Allen being so chummy, and

"You shouldn't say such thin

here but us, and we know it. I thought perhaps Will

ear. I didn't even kn

ind out. He's up to something. I only hope he d

high-spirited; that's all. What sort of a secret did it

sn't any girl in our set, and Will doesn't know any others. And if it is some one in

etty. "You speak as t

e. But if you don't know, you don't, Betty. And now I must ru

lie was j

any choice ones at the bottom, and then, after trying in vain to induce Betty to a

visits complete," murmured Betty, as she resumed the sor

their trip to Ocean View, where the be

son family to occupy the beautiful cottage

a candle in each bedr

," objected Grace. "I don't like candles-excu

only for emergency. The h

Ocean View was such a quaint

Lomar, that swell summer resort. Only a

tty's guests during the summer, though their parents or relatives ha

boys are always wel

nd the others. "That is, I'll spend as much

ace. "Will, I'll never speak to you ag

ur not speaking to me if you don't make me buy your chocolates. I care not wh

Roy, and the little conference, one of ma

eted their plans for a series of cruises along the coast, in the motor boat Pocohontas, loaned to Allen Washbur

his summer, getting the boat off

Ocean View that the cottage was in readiness, and at last, on a beautifully sun

e, also, as might

coming down in the

aving the engine overhauled, a new magn

ather did not want me to make the boat trip, but the

e a feather bed," mu

d Mollie. "Girls, I'm almost sur

irls!" choru

!" came t

called Will t

she a

ecret o

it? Do tell me! I

o her as she was borne along the platform with her ch