Tom laughed, but Roland almost blushed. Dorothy and Tavia could scarcely
appreciate the joke, but managed to guess that the boys had been talking
about them.
Finally Tom came to the rescue by telling about the "ghost scream." Tavia
was much interested, but Dorothy laughed at the idea. She had any amount
of explanations to offer for the queer occurrence, but none of them was
accepted as being plausible.
Tom and Roland both declared they would go out again some day and look the
whole thing over carefully.
Then Dorothy told the visitors of the Christmas plans--at least, she
attempted to tell them, but was interrupted by the coming of Ned and Nat.
So the girls were excused and the boys left to their own resources.
It was after all this that Dorothy and Tavia gave their personal views of
the two young men from college.
"They may help along our charity play," suggested Dorothy. "They look as
if they might be able to act, especially Mr. Jennings."
"Yes, I fancy he could act some parts--a big part with a whole lot of
sitting down in it," said Tavia.
"And Mr. Scott might be something on the Christmas tree," returned
Dorothy. "In a pretty, striped dress he would make a dear little
cornucopia, his blond head sticking out of the top like a sweet little
doll."
"I'm just going to tell him that," threatened Tavia. "Then I will be more
sure than ever of--his attention.
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