"Miss Carolan, I'm sure that you and I will always be great 'chums'--as they say here in North Queensland--and I'm just dying to tell you of something. Within this last hour I have become engaged to Mr. Mallard! Even Ted doesn't know it yet. Oh, I have heaps and heaps of things to tell you. Can't we have a real, nice long talk to-night?"
"Indeed we can," said Sheila, looking into the girl's bright, happy face.
CHAPTER IX
~ DINNER WITH "THE REFINED FAMILY"
Somewhat to the annoyance of Grainger and his friends, they found on their arrival at "Magnetic Villa" that there were several other visitors there who had apparently come to dine. Whether they were personal friends of Mrs. Trappème or not, or were "paying guests" like themselves, they could not at first discover.
"Dinner will be rea
