CHAPTER VIII

THE COMMITTEE IN SESSION

Sixty-two dollars and sixty-five cents," announced Louise Brent disconsolately. "I don't believe we'll ever get enough!"

"I wonder who gave the five cents," murmured Lanny.

The Twenty-fifth of October Fund Committee was assembled on the side porch at Brentwood, facing a problem.

"We need about twenty-eight dollars more, don't we?" asked Gordon. Louise nodded.

"Unless we left off the filing-cabinet," she said.

"How much less would that make it?"

"We figured the cabinet at eighteen dollars. Maybe it would be less, though."

"Eighteen," reminded Morris, "was before we