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"But there's an old lobsterman Tin-Back, they call him near Edgemere in whom I think you girls will be interested," he went on. "He's quite a character." "Why do they call him Tin-Back?" asked Amy. "Has he really a " "A tin back? How funny that would be?" laughed Betty. "You must ask him," declared her father. "I didn't have time when I came down to see if everything was all right."
"Well, if that isn't a combination!" laughed Mollie. "Oh, but I think my room is the dearest one! Come and see it, Amy." "Not until she selects her own," decided Betty. Then began the settling down in the charming cottage of Edgemere at Ocean View.
"I never realized how much I enjoyed not eating hunter's stew. I shall always love hunter's stew for the pleasure it has given me when I didn't eat it. I suppose the Discoverer ought to be getting back pretty soon." "Unless those girls took him to Edgemere," said Brownie. "I don't think they'd do that, they spoke well of Edgemere," said Townsend.
"Then I think you will like it at Ocean View," remarked Betty's mother. "And we think Edgemere a pretty place." "I'm sure it must be from what Betty has told me." "Do you like lobsters?" asked Mr. Nelson, looking over the top of his paper, with a twinkle in his eyes. "Lobsters?" repeated Amy, questioningly. "I haven't eaten many."
But Amy did not come that morning. The outdoor girls were making ready for their trip to Ocean View, where the better part of the summer would be spent. The arrangements had been made for the Nelson family to occupy the beautiful cottage, Edgemere, which was completely furnished. "Even to matches and a candle in each bedroom," Betty had said.
"Mother just loves the sea, and she has been wanting a permanent place there for some time. Papa has been looking about, and he heard of Edgemere, a beautiful big cottage, almost on the beach. He said he would buy it if mamma liked it, and so she and I went to look at it to-day." "You don't mean to say you have been to Ocean View, and back, this same day!" exclaimed Grace, in surprise. "Yes.
But neither the commands nor the questions halted the men. They ran on, with never a word of answer or defiance flung back dogged shadows fleeing through the moonlight to the shrubbery-encompassed grounds of Edgemere. "Stop, or I'll shoot!" cried Roy. "Oh!" screamed Grace, covering her ears. "Good bluff, all right," complimented Allen. "But it won't work." Nor did it.
There were several shell roads running from the main street of the town down to the water's edge, however. And soon, in a carriage, with their valises piled around them, our party set off for Edgemere, leaving a truckman to bring the trunks. "Oh what a perfectly dear place!" exclaimed Grace, as the carriage turned along a highway that paralleled the beach. "And how blue the water is!"
And only Justine Delande's bitter tears flowed in silence to lament the bold adventurer who had lost the game of life! It was at Rosebank that the three brides were assembled for a sweet review after the quiet double marriage at Edgemere, which caused General Wragge's rugged face to wreathe in honest smiles of delight.
"Tell them they'll have to pay for any damage they do to it," Pee-wee said. "We just want to put a flag on it," Wingate Chase said. "You mean you want to take possession of it?" Pee-wee demanded. "You mean you want to discover it? I'm the discoverer of this desert island." The fellow from Edgemere seemed rather amused at Pee-wee.
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