"You ought not to
have driven so fast and so far."
"I know it, ma'am," said Big Bill, looking like a culprit
schoolboy. "I'm awful 'shamed of myself!"
"And well you may be!" chimed in Adele Kenerley. "Suppose this
house hadn't been here, what would you have done?"
"I should have built one," declared Bill, promptly.
"So you would!" agreed Patty, heartily.
"You're equal to any emergency, Little Billee; and it WASN'T all
your fault, anyway. _I_ egged you on, because I love to drive
fast, especially at night."
"Very reprehensible tastes, young woman," said Jim Kenerley,
trying to be severe, but not succeeding very well.
"Oh, you might have known this house was here," said Mona. "It's
Mr. Kemper's house. They've gone away for a month. They're coming
back next week."
"Well, they'll find everything in order," said Patty. "We didn't
hurt a thing, except the window, and we've fixed that. We burned
up a lot of their firewood, though."
"They won't mind that," said Mona, laughing. "They're awfully nice
people. We'll come over and tell them the whole story when they
get home."
"And now, can't we go home?" said Patty. "I'm just about starved."
"You poor dear child," cried Mrs.
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