This is what she read:
"Gosh, some fellows do have all the luck, don't they? But never
mind, little girl. I'm coming to you by the very first boat, and
when I get there do you know what I'm going to do? Do you?"
Betty wanted to run away by herself and read the note over and over
again. But she could not do that. With a sigh she hid the little
message in a pocket of her skirt and turned back to the others.
CHAPTER XIX
LIKE OLD TIMES
It was a long time before the boys and girls woke up to the fact that
they were still standing in the center of the road and that they might
be ever so much more comfortable on the porch of the lodge, if any one
had had sense enough to think that far.
Mrs. Irving, who had been keeping herself rather in the background
during the first rapturous greetings, now came in for her share of
salutations and boyish greetings. The young soldiers crowded about
her, patting her hands and her shoulders and telling her how awfully
fine she looked and how glad they were to find her here until the lady
actually blushed with pleasure and begged them to stop their nonsense.
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