Ikey opened it and Carie walked
in.
"I came to bring you a letter," she announced, handing Carl a folded
paper, and shyly surveying the rest of the company from behind him.
He read it aloud.
To the G.N.C.:
We should like to come to your meeting this evening, if you will
let us. We have a splendid plan to tell you. Dora thought of it.
Send reply by bearer.
Yours truly,
$1$2.
"Shall we let them come?" he asked.
"Of course," said Jim, and as nobody was actively opposed, Carl
scribbled, "Come on," on the back of their elegant note.
Within five minutes the girls were established in their midst, quite
as if they belonged there.
When the screens were duly admired and their offers of help politely
declined, Bess explained the object of their visit.
"We think it would be nice, now that we haven't secrets any more, and
because you helped us with the harp man's benefit, for our clubs to be
friends and meet together sometimes. Dora has thought of a beautiful
plan. Won't you tell about it yourself, Dora?"
"It is nothing very great," she began modestly. "You know in the days
of chivalry how all the knights belonged always to some order,--like
the Knights Templars in 'Ivanhoe,'--and perhaps there are some now; I
don't know.
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