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"Better leave off everything else till we get some food. There's the coffee pot on the steps outside, where I put it, but the cream is all gone. We'll have to drink our coffee black." "Yeth, and thtay awake all night," averred Tommy. "But we don't care. We are used to thtaying awake all night, aren't we, Jane?" "Yes, darlin', we are," agreed Jane brightly.
"This part of the country appears to be deserted," she said. "I think we had better return. In the morning we will try to find some one." "Thave me!" moaned Tommy. "Mutht we thtay here in our wet clotheth all night?" "I fear so. What else is there for us to do?" "But let uth get our dry clotheth and put them on," urged Tommy. The girls laughed at her.
"Come along, Meadow-Brooks. I can't take any more this trip, but if Dad's buggy goes all right, I'll take the rest of you out on the instalment plan." "I don't want to go," decided Tommy. "I want to thtay here and retht. I never get any retht at all." The others were eager to go. Jane already was cranking up the car.
"Yeth, when I find out what ith going on out here. I won't catch cold, but maybe if I thtay out here long enough I'll catch a fithh. There! I know what you are watching. You are watching that 'Thilly Thue." "Sh-h-h!" The creaking on board had begun again. It continued at intervals for several moments, both girls listening almost breathlessly. "Wha at are they doing?" whispered Tommy.
"Let him tell; it's his secret," Clayton answered. "I'll be glad when he's gone" he was speaking across to Marjie now "then I'll get some show, maybe." "I'm going to hunt a wife," Bud sang out. "Can't find a thoul here who'll thtay with me long enough to get acquainted. I'm going out Wetht thomewhere."
"Doesn't look that high, does it?" "Have we got to climb up there?" questioned Margery. "We are going to. We do not have to if we don't want to," replied Hazel. "Oh, dear, I'm too tired to go on," whined Margery. "I knew Buthter could never climb a mountain," observed Tommy, with a hopeless shake of her little tow-head. "But never mind, Buthter, you can thtay here and wait until we come back.
"'Oh no, you won't, Tumm, says she. 'You thtay right here. Whath the cook wantin' o' me? "'Well, says the cook, 'I 'low I wants t' get married. "'T' get married! says she. "'That's right, says he. 'Damme! Tumm, says he, 'she got it right. T' get married, says he, 'an' I 'low you'll do. "'Me? says she. "'You, Liz, says he.
"I'd rather go home than thtay around where there are crathy Indianth," retorted Tommy. "Thuppothe we had been on that boat when it thank." "We wouldn't have been so foolish as to stay on it if it had been sinking," laughed Harriet. "Besides all of us can swim. Our enemy took good care to set fire to the boat when we weren't on it." "I wonder what his object is in persecuting us so," mused Hazel.
"Come, girls," urged Miss Elting, "you know we have to make our beds, and the hour is getting late." "I'm not thleepy," protested Grace, "I could thtay awake for ageth." "You will be by the time we find our sleeping place. It is some little distance from here." Harriet glanced at the guardian inquiringly. "Yes, it is the cabin," answered Miss Elting. "Mrs.
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