g into the house with the other two girls. "But you will have plenty
of opportunity for seeing what we did later on. It will not be long now,
before we shall go down in the town to stay. Did you have a nice, quiet
time by yourself?" Mollie felt embarrassed. She had hardly been alone.
But the other girls did not give her an opportunity to answer.

"Mollie, we have the finest plan!" Ruth broke in. "We are going to have a
coon hunt up on the hill. Mr. Latham says it is just the thing to do on
these early autumn nights. All the people we met at his house this
afternoon are to come up to supper with us to-morrow evening. Afterwards,
we are to start out after Br'er Possum and Br'er Coon. Won't it be a
jolly lark?"

"I don't approve of it, Ruth," said Miss Sallie. "I am sure young girls
never before took part in such an excursion. I shouldn't allow it, except
that Mr. Latham and his sister both assured me it was done by the best
people in Lenox. Then the English ambassador's daughters are to join
you."

Ruth looked solemnly at Bab and Grace. The girls were secretly amused at
Miss Sallie's social ambitions.

"Mollie," Ruth explained, "we did meet two such nice English girls this
afternoon--Gwendolin and Dorothy Morton--and an awfully funny, little
man, a secretary at the German embassy. They say that ambassadors are as
common in Lenox, in the season, as millionaires!"

"Did you like Reginald Latham to-day, Bab?" Mollie inquired, as the two
sisters walked into their bedroom together.

"Why, yes," admitted Bab. "I liked him as usual. He is a peaceable kind
of man, but rather queer. He is too learned for me. His mother seems
terribly vain of him. She does nothing but talk about his inventive
skill. I believe she encourages the airship business just to get on the
good side of his uncle. Mr. Winthrop Latham is simply crazy on the
subject and does not seem to care about anything else. And he must have a
tremendous lot of money. But Mrs. Latham, the German sister-in-law, as
good as told Aunt Sallie she and her son were dreadfully poor. They had
always been obliged to live on the income Mr. Winthrop Latham allowed
them, since her husband lost his money. But I shouldn't think she and her
son need worry; Reginald assured me that he was his uncle's only heir."

"Bab," Grace asked, joining the two sisters, "why did you spend so much
time out in that shed looking at airship models? You know you did not
understand them in the least; b