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The skipper tacked back and forth a couple of times to clear the bay, then laid his course diagonally away from the coast. The day was an ideal one, the sloop lay well over and steadily gained headway as she forged ahead with white water spurting away from her bows. "Gul-lor-ious!" cried Margery. "Love-a-ly!" mocked Crazy Jane. Tommy eyed Buster quizzically. "Yeth, but thith ithn't the real thea.
At this moment Charlie Hill, Aunt Chloe's boy, passed by with his fishing-rod and line. So Johnnie could not stay to hear Miss Rose then. He caught up his straw hat, seized his shrimp-net, and ran off, without even saying, "Excuse me." "That wath very imperlite," observed Mabel. "And Johnnie began asking the questions too! He ithn't very thad."
But the girls were rather amazed when, instead of beginning to climb up, the guide started down a sharp incline, calling to his charges to follow. "Thith ithn't up," cried Tommy. "We have to go through this gully first of all, then we begin going up," he explained. The couloir proved to be something of a hard proposition right at the beginning.
"He may have made up his mind that he had to do some tall sprinting," said the other, "when he realized what a hornets' nest he'd stirred up back there." "Yeth," remarked Ted Burgoyne who had been listening to all this talk with certain ideas of his own, "and lots of times it ithn't tho very hard to get a lift on the road.
Tommy surveyed the place with a squint and a scowl. There was not another article in the place besides the blankets. "There ithn't much danger of falling over the furniture in the dark, ith there?" she asked. "Not when we have a Torch Bearer with us," answered Buster, from the shadow just outside the door. "Thave me!" murmured Tommy. "Oh, my stars!
"Jane and I will attend to her," she said. Tommy pouted and strolled over to Margery. "Is is Harriet going to die?" wailed Margery. "No, Buthter, she ithn't." Margery turned anxiously away.
"Ithn't there anything else?" Rand, studying in silence the clouds and the whirling dust, had started down the step or two to the path between the marigolds. He paused. "I can't think of anything, Vinie"; then, after a moment, and very oddly, "Would you give me, once more, a cup of cool water?" Vinie brought it in her hand. "You always thaid this water washed the dust off clean."
We forgive you for all your tricks, and we don't care how much excitement you furnish if you will only keep your feet on something solid. We came within a little of all going over with you in our fright." "Ithn't that nithe?" glowed Tommy. She was recovering her spirits. "I thhould have had company." "That is a very ill-timed remark, Tommy," answered Miss Elting in a severe tone.
"Then thhe denieth it. I'm glad I don't thnore. Ithn't it awful to thnore, Mith Elting?" "Having too much to say is worse," answered Jane pointedly. "The storm has passed. Let's get out and fix things up. Harriet, will you help me? Miss Elting, if you will be good enough to engineer the taking-down of the side curtains and the lowering of the top I shall be obliged. We shan't need the top.
"I had forgotten about the dithheth. But I've got a plan about that. You jutht put the dithheth in a bag and thouthe them up and down in the lake. Then you put them on deck till they dry off. Now, ithn't that a plan? That ith a better plan than Harriet thaid jutht now." "I feel sorry for your house if you ever own one," laughed Harriet, beginning to clear off the table.
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