ture of the remark he had given acquiescence to.

"But to be arrested!" went on Viola.

"Were they arrested?" asked Tom in surprise.

"Why, of course," declared Viola. "Didn't Mr. White say so?"

"Oh, I suppose he did. That is--I really had not looked at it that
way. I thought it was some kind of joke."

But Tom had said, "Yes," Nat told him they had been arrested! And Tom
Burbank never intended to say anything of the kind! Viola Green with
her pretty clothes and pretty looks had "put the words into his mouth
and had taken them out again!"

"We must be going!" said Viola, leaving her seat beside the little fish
pond in the park. "I suppose I shall see you at the lawn party?"

"If I am invited?"

"Then I invite you now. You need not say you got my invitation before
the others were out--but be sure to come!"

CHAPTER X

A LAWN PARTY "WITH BOYS!"

The day was perfect--an item of much importance where lawn parties are
concerned. Dorothy and Tavia were kept in ignorance of the testimonial
that had been arranged in their honor, and were now, at one hour before
the appointed time, dressing for an afternoon with Alice. Ned and Nat
were to go with them and then--

"I am going to dress in my brand new challie," Tavia announced to
Dorothy, as she left for that operation. "I'll show Miss Cucumber what
I can look like when I do dress up."

"I'll wear my cadet blue linen," said Dorothy, "I think that such a
pretty dress."

"Splendiferous!" agreed Tavia, "and so immensely becoming. Well, let
us get there on time. I am just dying to say things at, not to, Miss
Cuke."

"Tavia!" but that young lady was out of reach of the admonition Dorothy
was wont to administer. The Green Violet, the Green Vegetable and all
the other Greens seemed sufficiently abusive to Dorothy, but she was
determined not to tolerate the latest epithet Tavia had coined to take
the place of that name--Viola Green.

"Of course," admitted Dorothy, reflecting upon Tavia's new word, "Viola
does seem sour, and her name is Green, but that is no reason why we
should make an enemy of her. She might make it very unpleasant at
Glenwood School."

Ned and Nat arrived just as Dorothy finished dressing. They had been
invited over the telephone by Alice, who, in taking them into the lawn
party plot, had arranged that they bring Dorothy and Tavia ostensibly
to spend the afternoon with her.

Scarcely had the cousins' greeting been exchanged