Ada chuckled patronizingly.

"Spend money," she said briefly.

"Do that," exclaimed the youthful leader calmly.

"How can I spend money here?" demanded Ada angrily. "There's nothing tobuy. I call that silly."

"Then you admit you can't spend money?"

"No such thing!" Ada stamped her leg, furious at such stupidity. "I sayI can't spend it here where there is nothing to buy. You let me go toEdentown, and I'll show you whether I can spend money or not."

"The order of the first degree of the Mysterious Four is that thecandidate must do what she can do best," repeated the veiled figureinsistently. "What can you do best?"