"Where...is it!" she mumbled furiously, flinging other clothing items aside from out of her drawer.
"Ooooohhh!" she moaned, rolling her eyes and digging deeper into her pile. She sighed and grabbing another pile beside her, she returned to her bed.
"Finely!" she exclaimed, holding up a pale blue ball gown. She threw it carefully in her suitcase and packed the matching ice blue slippers. "Nancy, are you done yet!" exclaimed her father Carson Drew up the stairs: "Ned and the gang be here in a minute or two!" Nancy bit her nails frantically and called: "I'm coming!"
She quickly slipped into her warm pink colored sweater jacket and grabbed her bags, hurrying down the stairs. "Bye, Dad!" she grinned, landing a kiss on his cheek: "Bye, Hannah!" The house keeper came hurrying in with an apron on. "Goodbye, Nancy! Oh, dear and please be careful! Whenever you go off mystery hunting like this I always get so jittery!" Hannah said with a slight frown.
"Oh, don't be silly Hannah! With Ned and Bess and George and the boys there what could happen? I'll be back next week. Bye, now." Nancy dimpled. Just then a horn honked outside. "That'll be Ned now!" she said, turning and opening the front door. She walked through it and her father followed her to the curb were Ned's car sat.
"All you kids be careful!" Carson exclaimed as Nancy climbed into the backseat beside the blonde haired Bess. "We will, Mr. Drew. The Mansfield ranch is a real swell place. We'll see you in a week." said Ned, who was at the wheel.
"Bye!" they all waved to Nancy's lawyer father as they pulled off in the red convertible. "Whew!" Nancy sighed, leaning back in the padded seat and smoothing her dress: "I thought they'd never let me out of there!" Her brunette female friend George laughed and said: "You're not the only one!"
"Ned, where are Burt and Dave?" Nancy asked, pushing a strawberry blonde curl from her face. "Oh, their going in a different car than us. "Ooooh." Nancy sighed, laying her head back: "Gosh, I'm tired." "I am too..." complained Bess: "Ned, why did you have to make us all meet up so eaaaaaarly?" George rolled her eyes: "Aww, Bess don't be lazy! You know good and well that we'd miss our train if we'd waited any later!" Bess let out a moan and said: "I know already!"
"Girls, girls! Be quiet!" laughed Nancy: "My head's killing me from hearing both of you fighting so much!" This made them all laugh.
Everything was quiet and Nancy began to become sleepy after a little while. Finely she closed her eyes and leaned against the convertable's door, starting to doze off. She was sleeping well until suddenly she heard Ned exclaim: "WOAH!" and felt him hit the breaks real quick.
When her eyes blinked open she found herself in mid-air and suddenly she hit the padded seat with a jolt and went sprawling into the car's floor along with Bess and George.
