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“But you were quite right,” said Patsy, decidedly. “Such things ought not to be permitted.”

“The people think differently,” he replied.

“Then we must educate the people to a different way of thinking,” announced Louise.

“In three weeks?”

“That is long enough, if we get to work. Isn’t it, girls?” said Beth.

“Kenneth accepted the nomination with the idea of having a law passed prohibiting such signs,” explained the lawyer. “But Mr. Hopkins, his opponent, has used this very thing to arouse public sentiment against him. Farmers around here are thrifty people, and they fear to lose the trifling sums paid them for the privilege of painting signs on their premises.”

Patsy nodded gravely.

“We will change all that,” she said. “The thing is really more serious than we expected, and more difficult. But we came here to work and win, and we’re going to do it. Aren’t we, Uncle John?”

“I’ll bet on your trio, Patsy,” replied her uncle. “But I won’t bet all I’m worth.”

“It’s all foolishness,” declared Kenneth.