Father will be here soon," announced Mabel.

"To-night we are to have a little dance.

I have been keeping it as a surprise for you.

We have a perfectly darling ballroom in the house and I have invited a number of my friends to meet you." Mabel's announcement was received with exclamations of delight.

What girl does not welcome the very idea of a real dance to the notes of a real orchestra?
The Overton girls went upstairs to dress for the coming dance, and for the time being their self-imposed problem of the newspaper girl was forgotten..