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Stuffed pancakes, how horrid! • The mysterious little notebooks • A conspiracy is afoot • Dress rehearsal • Good-by to Bohrlaken on Lake Bohren!

Vacation was coming to an end. The piles of clean clothes had been put in the trunks. The children scarcely knew whether to be sad at leaving or happy at the prospect of returning home.

Mrs. Muther was planning a garden party. The father of one of the girls owned a big store, and he had sent a packing case full of Chinese lanterns, colored streamers, and the like. Now counselors and children together were hard at work decorating the veranda and the garden. They lugged step-ladders from tree to tree, hung the gaudy lanterns among the foliage, looped the crepe paper streamers from bough to bough, and fixed up, on a long table, a handsome box from which lucky numbers would be drawn for prizes. Others wrote numbers on slips of paper. The first prize was a beautiful pair of roller skates.

“Where have Curls and Braids gone?” asked Miss Ursula.

(Such were her new names for Lisa and Lottie.)

“Oh, them!” said Monica, scornfully. “They’re probably sitting in the grass somewhere, holding hands so that the wind won’t blow them apart.”