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The Hares scurried around and were ready to start in a jiffy. These were Munson McKee as leader, with Katherine, the Captain, Gladys, Pitt, Nakwisi and Antha. Sahwah's band consisted of Hinpoha and Slim, Migwan and Peter Jenkins, Dan Porter and Anthony. The elders had decided not to go on this trip. Mrs.
"Get into the launch, quick," said Uncle Teddy "and we'll go and look." Aunt Clara and Katherine and several more jumped in and they went off in feverish haste. Aunt Clara was almost prostrated at the thought that harm might have come to Antha from that errand.
"We'll all be together again some time, I feel it in my bones," said Hinpoha cheerily. "You just can't separate us Winnebagos." Farewells were being said on all sides. "Good-bye, Nyoda! Remember the visit you're going to make us next summer!" "Good-bye, Sandhelo!" "Good-bye, Eeny-Meeny!" "Good-bye, Uncle Teddy!" Antha clung to Katherine, sobbing.
"Don't tell Antha we're going to sleep on the ground," Gladys warned the others diplomatically, "or she'll make a fuss before we start." "We'll save that for a pleasant surprise," said Sahwah, with a grin over her shoulder. No special time had been set for the return of the "exploraging" party. They were simply going to paddle up the river as far as they could go and then turn back.
They hadn't told Antha about the danger threatening Eeny-Meeny nor the plan for her defense. Katherine reflected. "It was kind of mean to leave her out of that. I wouldn't like it myself if I were the younger one of a group and they kept having secrets from me. I'm not being a real nice big sister at all." "Never mind, Antha," she said, patting her hand. "I'll tell you about it.
"Why not make Antha an 'associate member' of the Winnebagos? Then we'd never lose interest in her." "Good idea," said Nyoda heartily. "Let's have a ceremonial meeting right away and make her officially one of us."
From all sides there rose a storm of protest. "We wouldn't have those twins up here for anything," said Gladys emphatically. "We had just as much as we could stand of them in two days. Have you forgotten what a cry-baby Antha was?" "And what a snob Anthony was?" said the Captain.
And all the Winnebagos were filled with remorse when they thought how they had blamed Antha for that same disappearance. Katherine lay back overcome and fanned herself with a bunch of leaves. "Well, I'll be jiggered!" she exclaimed feelingly. "All that trouble to bring me out of a fit of the blues!"
Antha fell in the path to the tents, bumping her head and skinning her arm, and cried all the while she was being fixed up. Then she was afraid to go into the tent because it might blow down; she was afraid of the dark, of spiders, of everything. The girls were worn out by the time they had her in bed. "Isn't she a prune?" whispered Sahwah to Hinpoha.
"The small one," replied Antha. "Good Lord," ejaculated Uncle Teddy. "That was the one with the loose board in the bottom! Why didn't I take it away from the others? What a narrow scrape you had! It was a mighty good thing for you that that rock was right there." "And she stood there all day!" "Why didn't you swim to shore?" asked Uncle Teddy.
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