"
"Hasn't one load already started?"
"Yes, Aunt Adelaide and the Kenerleys have gone."
"Didn't she go with them?"
"Why, she MUST have done so. Well, good-bye, dear old Bill, come
and see us again next summer, won't you?"
"I will so!" and Bill shook Mona's hand mightily, as an earnest of
his words.
"And I'm sorry to go off and leave you, but you go to the station
in a few minutes, don't you?"
"Yes, and Barker will look after me. Run along, Mona, I'll write
you in a day or two, and tell you how much I've enjoyed my visit
here."
Some further cordial good-byes were said, and then the car started
off with Daisy, Mona, and Cromer to the Country Club. Farnsworth
flew back to the pantry.
"Hello," he said, as he drew up the dumb-waiter, "you WILL evade
me, will you, you little bunch of perversity?"
Patty, who was still laughing at his daring deed, said, "Have they
all gone?" "They sure have! You and I are here all alone."
"Oh, Bill!" and Patty's lip quivered a little. "How COULD you do
that? What SHALL I do?"
"Now don't get ruffled, little one; my train goes in twenty
minutes. You're going to the station to see me off, and then
Barker will take you on to the Country Club to join the rest of
them.
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