It was in August, two years later that the battle of Bennington took
place."
"We'd better agree to have dinner or supper here if we don't want to
get back to Williamstown after all the food in the place has been eaten
by those hungry college boys," suggested Mrs. Emerson.
Mr. Emerson took a hasty glance at the setting sun.
"You never spoke a truer word, my dear," applauded her husband, "though
this is vacation and the boys won't be there! Still, I'm as hungry as
a bear. Let's have our evening meal, whatever it proves to be, in
Bennington."
They were all hungry enough to think the plan one of the best that
their leader had offered for some time, so it was only after what
turned out to be supper that they went back to Williamstown.
In the moonlight the towers of the college buildings glimmered
mysteriously through the trees, and the girls went to bed happy in the
promise of what the morning was going to bring them.
Ethel Brown was sorry that there were no students to be seen on the
grounds when they wandered about the next morning, for she would have
liked to see what sort of boys they were, and, if she liked their
looks, have suggested to Tom or James that they come here to college
amid such lovely surroundings.
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