If that's
good news," she finished.
"It is--fine!" declared Mollie.
"And we were talking about it to-day," resumed the quiet girl, "and he
said perhaps he would take Aunty down there to stay until spring, as her
health is not very good. And I'll probably go----"
"Oh, Amy!"
It was a protesting chorus.
"And I mentioned you girls, and Uncle Stonington said I could bring you
down--if you'd come--all of you--to a Florida orange grove."
"Amy Stonington--I mean Blackford--I'm just going to hug you!" cried
Betty. "Go! Of course we'll go!"
"After we find Will," put in Grace in a low voice.
CHAPTER III
WILL'S LETTER
Amy's announcement--unexpected as it was--had two effects. It dispelled,
for a time, the gloom that had come with the news of Will Ford's
disappearance, and it gave the girls something to talk about, to
speculate over and to plan for.
"I must confess," admitted Betty, "that our strenuous life this Fall and
Summer, living in the outdoors, has unfitted us for the hum-drum sort of
existence that used to satisfy us. We seem to want some excitement all
the while now.
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