"Look! It has something tied to it," she cried, and, stooping, picked it
up.
"Bring it here," called Grace excitedly. "Oh, this is romantic! Betty,
let me see it, quick!"
"Wait a minute, I haven't seen it myself yet," said Betty, as she
unfolded the tiny slip of paper attached to the stone. "Well, of all
the----"
Grace looked over her shoulder and this is what the two girls read:
"When are you coming out? The water's fine."
With one accord they rushed to the window through which the message had
come and leaned far out. But look as they might in every direction,
there was no sight nor sound of human beings. The grounds about the
house and even the woods seemed deserted.
The girls drew back in, looked at each other in perplexity, then their
gaze instinctively traveled to the note still held in Betty's hand.
"Well," Grace announced, "it seems that we have here a key to some
mystery----"
"Mystery nothing!" Betty interrupted disrespectfully. "We know who wrote
this--there is no mistaking Roy's scrawl. The senders have
decamped--that's all."
"Speak of princes----" said Grace, as they went out arm in arm.
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