The Little Colonel in Arizona

THAT night there was a whispered consultation in Mrs. Ware's tent while / Lloyd was undressing in the other one. Sitting on the edge of her / mother's bed, Joyce rapidly outlined a plan which she had thought of on / her way home.

"You see, I haven't done anything special at all to give Lloyd a good / time," she began. "This picnic was Phil's affair. When I was at her / house-party, there was something new on the programme nearly every day. / She's been here nearly a month now, and her visit will soon be over. I'd / like to give her one real larky day before she goes. Mrs. Lee said that / I could have Bogus to-morrow, and, as it is Saturday, the children will / be at home to help you. So I thought it would be fun for Jack and Lloyd / and me to ride over to the Indian school. It's so interesting, and it / doesn't cost anything to get in. Then we could go on to the ostrich / farm just outside of Phoenix. Lloyd wants to get some kodak pictures of / the ostriches. The admission fee will only be seventy-five cents for the / three of us. I can pay that out of the money that Mrs. Link sent, and / get a nice little lunch at Coffee Al's restaurant, and still have enough / left to pay for my hive of bees. We can spend the rest of the afternoon / prowling around the curio shops and picture stores. Lloyd wants to get / ever so many things to take home, -- bead belts and moccasins, and things / made out of cactus and orangewood. I haven't said anything to her about / it yet, but Phil said that if we went he would join us."