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The girls turned to look at the other motor boat. It was rounding the point to Bayhead now, and seemed to be going at remarkable speed. "How fast it goes!" exclaimed Lottie. "Yes, much faster than the Chelton," responded Cora. "I told you he was holding back." "What could have been his object?" asked Belle. And that was a question all the girls asked themselves.
I went through there once in a parade wagon. We were out with the G. A. R. and I guess the parade got lost, for I remember at Chelton we had to put up for the night in an old church they were using for a fire house. But we had a fine time," and he chuckled at the recollection. "And next day we finished up without the need of a wagon.
"Gee, whiz!" shouted Walter, "look at that spray deluge Dray!" "And she's missing," added Ed, for the sounds from the Dixie were distinctly out of time. Suddenly Dray's boat slowed down, and the Chelton shot so far ahead that it was plain something had happened to the Dixie. Jack stood up and looked back. "Something is wrong," he said. "We had better not get too far ahead.
She was thinking of her experience coming out to Chelton; also she kept on the lookout for Mr. Reed. He had hinted that there were interesting things developing in Chelton just then. He had said openly that his interest and Cora's were mutual. Would he again molest her? With this thought she determined not to get too far away from Jack. She would have him call at the Hastings' house for her.
The return of the storm-stricken ones attracted crowds of bungalowers and campers to the beach; for, of course, craft of all sorts had been caught in the gale. The center of interest, however, was the Chelton, for that boat had already gained a reputation at Crystal Bay.
She tried this morning an air or two upon the piano, sang a simple song in a sweet but slightly metallic voice, and then seating herself by the open window, read Philip's letter. Was she thinking about Philip, as she gazed across the fresh lawn over the tree tops to the Chelton Hills, or of that world which his entrance, into her tradition-bound life had been one of the means of opening to her?
With Jack's and Walter's additional cars the girls were able to ride home without crowding, so that the Whirlwind carried only Cora, Clip and Gertrude the gallantry of the Chelton young men affording Tillie and Adele a chance for a most jolly trip in the little runabouts, while Hazel rode with the twins.
Directly following the Whirlwind came another car the little silver Flyaway. In this also were two girls, the Robinson twins, Elizabeth and Isabel, otherwise Belle and Bess. Chelton folks were becoming accustomed to the sight of these girls in their cars, and a run of the motor girls was now looked upon as a daily occurrence.
Belle and Bess, with clasped hands, bent over the prostrate form of the girl, whose plain, black dress showed the dust and travel stains of the highways about Chelton. From the verandah Mrs. Kimball stepped in, through the long window. "Get some water, Cora," she directed in a calm and self-possessed voice. "Also the aromatic ammonia on my dressing table. It is merely a faint. Poor girl!
Will you come, Walter?" "Of course." "Then, Jack, you go back to Chelton and keep a lookout on both sides of the road." "Hard to do that with one pair of eyes," was her brother's reply. "I wish I had some one to ride with me. But go ahead; I'll do the best I can." "It would be a good plan," assented Cora, "to have a person with you. If you could pick up some one "
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