Where is your card?"
"I haven't any yet; won't it be time enough to get one after
supper?"
"Yes, if you let me see it before any one else. I find it's a
trick with the young men here to make dance engagements
surreptitiously at the supper table."
Patty glanced about, and saw more than one tasselled card
appearing and disappearing from hand to hand.
A moment later, she heard a voice behind her chair. "Apple
Blossom," it whispered, "I've brought you a dance card. Say 'Thank
you, Bill.'"
"Thank you, Father Neptune," said Patty, flashing a smile at him,
as she took the card, and turned back to the captain.
CHAPTER XVII
THE APPLE BLOSSOM DANCE
"Now I have a programme, Captain Sayre," Patty said. "If you
really want a part of a dance--"
"I don't!" declared the captain, positively. "There are some
ladies I'd dance half a dance with, but NOT with you."
"Then I suppose I'll have to give you a whole one," Patty sighed,
"and I know I won't have enough to go 'round. You know it's late,
and there are only ten dances on the list."
"And they're half gone!" exclaimed Captain Sayre, as he looked at
the card Patty had handed him.
"What!" she cried, looking at it herself.
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