“Margie! Where are you?”

“Just getting ready to come over to your house, Lucy. Come on up. I’ll be ready as soon as I tie a new ribbon on my hair.”

Lucy hurried into Margie’s room. There was something in the haste and manner of Lucy that caused Margie to stop and ask:

“What’s the matter? Has anything happened?”

“Teddy wouldn’t let me come to watch him, Joe and Dick fly their planes,” Lucy reported. “But I’m going anyhow. And if the planes won’t fly—and I don’t believe they will—we can have the laugh on them.”

“We, Lucy?”

“Sure. You’ll come with me, won’t you?”

“I guess so. Where is it?”

“Down in Mason’s meadow. We haven’t31 anything to do so we might as well go there as any place else, don’t you think?”

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“Of course. Won’t the boys be surprised?”

“Well—maybe,” said Lucy slowly. “I think Teddy sort of suspects I’ll follow him. But I don’t care. I’ve got a right to.”

“Of course we have,” agreed Margie. “They can’t keep us out of Mason’s meadow.”

So the two girls hurried toward the same field where, a little while before, Teddy and his chums had started to fly their planes. On the way the girls decided to stop in the candy store kept by old Mrs. Traddle.

“I’ve got part of my allowance left,” said Lucy. “I’ll treat you, Margie.”

“Oh, that’s lovely. Next time I’ll treat you. But let’s save some of the candy for the boys.”

“What! Give them candy after they wouldn’t let us come to see them fly their planes? I should say not!”

32 “Oh, I don’t mean give them any candy,” explained Margie with a laugh. “But we’ll save some to eat in the meadow after we get there. And when the boys see us eating candy—”

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