Page:The secret play (1915).djvu/138

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

windows. I guess he will be willing to do them for nothing under the circumstances."

"I know him," said Gordon. "He's a particular crony of Fudge's. Take Fudge along with you."

"Then I don't see but that we're all right," said Louise. "And we needn't meet again until after we've been to New York. I do hope you will like what we pick out."

"We're sure to," replied Dick. "The main thing, though, is for Mr. Grayson to like them!"

"That reminds me," announced Morris, "that there will be a charge for carting the stuff from the freight-house to the school. I dare say Stewart will do it for a dollar and a half."

"You don't want to forget," reminded Nell, "that you may get the things cheaper than we estimated them. I dare say we'll have quite all the money we need. Wouldn't it be splendid if we did and I hadn't to pay my three dollars and a half after all?"

The others howled at that and Dick demanded his penny back. Gordon asked where the furniture was to be kept until they could smuggle it into the office, and Morris explained that they were going to have it taken to the school late in the afternoon, after Mr. Grayson had gone, and stored in a room in the base-