ded in their activities when
boys were wanted at all. The week before, the girls had waved them
good-bye as they started on an auto trip with Paul Breckenridge.

The girls missed their parting nonsense. It didn't seem like going
away at all, without the boys to keep up the fun.

As the train began to move, Bet smiled bravely back at her father and
waved until a curving road carried them out of sight of the station.

Only then did she answer the insistent calls of the girls inside the
car.

"Bet Baxter, do come here and see this," cried Enid Breckenridge, a
large blond girl whose serious face told of trouble lived through that
had been too heavy for her young shoulders. Her gray-blue eyes were
sad.

Bet was about to speak to Enid when the other chum, a tall dark-eyed
girl, grabbed her by the hand and dragged her across the room.

"Look at this, Bet!" Kit Patten exclaimed. "You're missing everything!"

But Bet stood stock still and gazed about her in surprise. This was
not a bit like an ordinary train. It gave the impression of a very
homey living room in a small house, with its shaded reading lamps and
the easy chairs that invited one to their soft depths.

"Isn't it wonderful?" breathed Bet with a happy sigh. "I'd love to sit
right there and watch the scenery go by."

But that was only the impulse of a moment. There were too many things
to see in this marvelous train. And Kit was demanding her attention
from one side and Enid Breckenridge from the other.

Kit won, and opening a door, displayed a small bedroom beautifully
arranged and furnished.

"Isn't it just too lovely for anything?" asked Kit as she heard Bet's
gasp of astonishment.

"I didn't know trains were ever fixed up this way," Bet was taking in
all the delightful details of the room. "I always thought it was a
lower berth if you were lucky and an upper one if you were out of luck.
Why this is just like a lovely little playhouse. Who will sleep here?"

"This is for mother," said Enid. "She gets the best room."

"Of course she does," assented Bet. "But where do _we_ get put away
for the night?"

"In here!" Kit suddenly opened a door and at Bet's look of surprise
she went on: "You didn't know there was a door there, did you? It's
almost like magic."

And magic it seemed to the girls as they wandered from one thing to
another. The electrical appliances in the dressing room!

"Why, girls, we don't know what half of them are for