"
"How can you, Patty?"
"I haven't quite thought it out yet, but I have an idea."
"But, Patty, wait a minute. Perhaps they only changed the date on
yours,--just to fool you, you know."
"Good gracious, Nan! perhaps that's so! How did you come to think of
it? But I'll soon find out."
Patty flew to the telephone, and in a short time learned that both
Mona and Elise were invited for the eighth, and she concluded that
the plotters had changed the date on all the invitations.
Next she called up Marie, and without letting her know why, asked
for a list of the luncheon guests.
Marie told her at once, without asking why she wanted to know.
There were nine beside the Homers, and Patty was acquainted with
them all.
She called them up each in turn on the telephone, and explained
carefully that a mistake had been made in the invitations, and she
hoped they would come on the first instead of the eighth.
Fortunately, all of them were able to do this, and Patty enjoined
each one to say nothing about this change of date, until they should
arrive at the party.
To a few of her more intimate friends,--Mona, Elise, and Christine,-
-she told the whole story, and they fell in with her plans.
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