The Black Jacket Mystery

nodded, her eyes starry. “They’re staying at our house. Dad and Mom made their trip just special to surprise us by bringing the girls back. It took some managing, but Dad did it! And we’ve been invited to visit them in Mexico.”
    “Jeeps!” Trixie was overcome. “Mexico!” And she hugged Honey in delight.
    But that was to come later. Right now everyone was getting out onto the ice to skate, and the smell of good food was being wafted over the ice, so Trixie and Honey hurried to join Lupe and Dolores.
    They were a minute too late. Jim had Dolores and Brian had Lupe, on proud right arms, and the two couples were skating out onto the ice to join the rest of the happy crowd.
    “Well, what do you know about that?” Trixie asked her best friend.
    Honey giggled. “I know we won’t be taking that trip to Mexico without our brothers, for one thing.
    And for another, I was just wondering if Lupe and Dolores have brothers at home who are as good-looking as they are themselves?”
    “Probably not.” Trixie grinned. “But I bet it will be lots of fun! Let’s go find Dan and Mart and do some skating ourselves!”
    “All right, let’s!”
    But first they stopped a moment to open a package they had hidden inside the ticket booth.
    And a few minutes later, as Trixie and Dan skated out onto the lake, closely followed by Mart and Honey, all four were wearing B.W.G. jackets, though Mart’s was the only brand-new one. They looked very smart in them, except that Trixie still had on her Spanish comb and mantilla, because she hadn’t been able to get the knot untied in the string that held the comb in place.
    But she had a grand time in spite of it, and so did everyone at the ice festival, including Bobby, who had gone to sleep with his head on the toy bear, ' which was now his because the only other under-ten contestant had developed a tummy-ache and had had to go home before the race began.
    And Regan, speaking for all of them at the end of the gay evening, told Mr. Maypenny, “It looked for a while as if the experiment was a mistake, but it seems to have turned out just fine.”
    To which Mr. Maypenny nodded and said, “Amen!”