I found plenty of blankets stowed away."
"Fine!" cried Will enthusiastically. "Just the very thing! One of us
can take turns sleeping on the floor. It won't be the first time we've
slept on harder things."
"Goodness, any one would think they were going to stay a month," said
Mollie in dismay.
"No, we won't stay a month," Will went on. "But we are going to stay
until we find out what it is that has been bothering you girls. Do you
suppose we would leave you unprotected here? I should say not!" Grace
noticed that when he said this his glance was first for Amy, and,
afterward, for her.
So it was settled. Mrs. Irving went inside to see about getting lunch.
"Though how the boys can find any room for lunch after eating all
those sandwiches, I don't know," Amy had commented wonderingly.
Mrs. Irving had refused absolutely to let any of the girls even so
much as help with this lunch, saying they must stay outside and visit
with the boys on this momentous occasion.
"Since you are convinced that this thing is not a ghost," Will went
on, while appetizing odors began to waft toward them from the open
kitchen windows, "we will take it for granted that it is a man, and a
man who has, presumably, lost his mind.
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