CHAPTER VIII

THE PICNIC At mid-day on Monday, Judge’s Daimler pulled up outside the hall porch at Runhill Court. Roger jumped out and assisted the girls to alight, after which Judge himself got down. Beneath their motoring wraps, Blanche and Isbel wore light summer dresses, for, although it was already October, the sky was cloudless and the sun hot. All congratulated themselves on the happy selection of such a day for their excursion. “Where do we go?” laughed Blanche. Judge was struggling to get out the baskets. He deposited t…