In the meanwhile the
young people had discussed over and over again the beautiful fete
given by Cora, though the finding of the bonds and the story of the
ring was kept within a small, select circle. Ed Foster took the
bonds to the bank and received for them part of the stock for which
he had negotiated. The rest, he said, would be held for him.
"And I'm pretty sure I'll get the rest of my twenty thousand dollars
back soon," he said. "At least, nearly all the cash."
Mrs. Kimball went to the city to prepare for her trip to Bermuda,
and it was a few days later, when some of the recent excitement had
worn off, that Cora began to feel a sense of loneliness stealing
over her. Her mother seldom went away from home.
"Oh, dear!" she exclaimed as she sat in the library trying to be
interested in a book. "I wish something--"
Out on the driveway a triumphant "honk-honk!" drew her attention.
"I hope that's--" she began, but she did not finish, for she saw the
Robinson twins in a shining, new car, Bess at the wheel, as though
she had been running one for months, and the sisters both attired in
their becoming motoring costumes.
"Come on!" cried Bess as Cora leaned out of the window. "Get your
car and we'll take a spin! Isn't ours a beauty?"
"Oh, isn't it!" cried Cora delightedly.
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