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It is situated on the Argono River, a pleasant stream where a great many of the young folk of Deepdale, and some of the older ones too, keep motor boats and canoes and various other types of pleasure craft. Farther on, the Argono empties into Rainbow Lake, which is picturesque in the extreme.
It is frozen over, you know. He can come to no harm, I'm sure." "Oh, Will, hurry! Do! Find my little baby!" cried the frantic mother. Will dashed on, followed by the others. They kept their electric torches aglow, and could easily trace the line of tiny footsteps, since no other persons had passed down this way over the Billette property to the frozen Argono.
It would be a week or two before Wild Rose Lodge would be ready for the girls' occupancy, and as a relief for their impatience they filled in the time in hiking, motoring and put-putting up and down the Argono in their natty little motor boat.
It was a charming town, with some country features that made it all the nicer. It nestled in a bend of the Argono River, a stream of some importance commercially. The four girls I have already named Grace Ford, Mollie Billette, Betty Nelson and Amy.
It would be a week or two before Wild Rose Lodge would be ready for the girls' occupancy, and as a relief for their impatience they filled in the time in hiking, motoring and put-putting up and down the Argono in their natty little motor boat.
If I can get Ted Franklin and his wife I know it will be all right, and you girls will have a fine time with them. "You can have a bungalow or a cabin or two to yourselves, if you like, and lay in enough provisions for all winter. It's on a branch of the Argono River," he went on, "and you can skate all the way to camp on the ice, if you like. But we'll discuss the details later."
"He calls everything, 'she, and if it was an auto he'd 'anchor' it near the river just to be close to the water he loves so much." "What if it's an airship?" asked Amy. "I shall learn to run it!" declared Betty. "Never!" "Yes I shall." "Let us hope it is but a rowboat then," sighed Amy. They went out on the public dock in the Argono River.
They had returned to Deepdale, their home town on the Argono River, just as spring was budding forth. And now, this glorious day, the four girls had met once again, and were ready for something new, which something seemed to be offered by Betty Nelson. "You see it's this way, girls," went on the Little Captain, as she explained matters.
Straight up the Argono River flew the Spider. Crawled would perhaps be a more appropriate term, considering the insect, but the ice boat did not crawl it literally flew. "Oh, this is just glorious!" cried Mollie, with shining eyes, as she crouched down amid the rugs near Will, and looked ahead at the white, icy stretch.
"Well, Captain Betty, what are your orders?" asked Amy, as the four girls, and Aunt Kate, stood grouped in the space aft of the trunk cabin, Betty being at the wheel, while the Gem moved slowly down the Argono River. "Just make yourselves perfectly at home," answered Betty. "This trip is for fun and pleasure, and, as far as possible, we are to do just as we please.
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