we listen to him any longer," but they need not have hurried, for
Andy, so full of news that he could not keep still, had rushed off
down the street, hopping, skipping and jumping, to spread the tidings,
which nearly every Academy pupil in Cresville knew by that time.

Now the motor boys could discuss a Californian trip in earnest, for
they knew their parents would let them go, especially after Mr.
Seabury's invitation, and the letter from Professor Snodgrass. In the
course of a few days Jerry received another missive from Nellie
Seabury.

This letter informed Jerry, and, incidentally, his two chums, that
she, with her sisters and father, had settled in a small town near the
coast, not far from Santa Barbara, and on a little ocean bay, which,
Nellie said, was a much nicer place than any they had visited in
Florida.

"Father likes it very much here," she wrote, "and he declares he feels
better already, though we have been here only a week. He says he knows
it would do him good to see you boys, and he wishes-- in fact we all
wish-- you three chums could come out here for a long visit, though I
suppose you cannot on account of school opening. But, perhaps, we
shall see you during the next vacation."

"She's going to see us sooner than that," announced Bob, when Jerry
had read the letter to him and Ned.

"Did you write and tell her we were coming?" asked Ned, his two
friends having called at his house to talk over their prospective
trip.