Bob Parker, of all persons, championing Eleanor's cause! Betty felt as if a thunder-bolt had fallen, and she waited in awed silence to see what would happen next. Nothing happened--but more thunder-bolts. Babe said she guessed it was a case of, "The more the merrier." Babbie wondered if Miss Hale would wish to share her state-room, and suggested that if another could not be procured for Eleanor, the three B's could easily crowd into one.