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"We are within a mile of it now. After breakfast, with your permission I'll row over," continued Harriet. "I want to see that island at close range. Jane, will you come with me?" Jane was prompt to accept Harriet's invitation. Miss Elting also was invited, but concluded to remain with the other girls on the houseboat. Harriet and her companion rowed rapidly to the island shortly after breakfast.
"Yeth; I'll be careful." "Hurry back. Supper will be on the table by the time you get below again." Tommy, pitcher in hand, ran up the ladder to the deck above, Harriet and Miss Elting, in the meantime, putting the food on the table. "Tom-m-m-y-y-y!" called Jane after some minutes had elapsed. "The little girl has gone to sleep up there, I'll wager."
Why didn't you tell Mr. Grubb in time, so he could look after this fellow?" demanded Miss Elting. "You knew there was some one about some time before you got up and walked away, didn't you?" "I thought I heard some one. That was the reason I strolled off by myself." "So I supposed," commented the guardian. "Had I said anything the person would have cried out and given the alarm.
That evening he consulted with the Chief Guardian in her tent, with the result that the Meadow-Brook Girls, Miss Elting and five of their companions were told to prepare themselves for an early departure on the following morning, provided the day were fair. The girls were delighted, especially Harriet, who looked forward to putting into actual practice the theories that she had learned.
Dishes mustn't go unwashed on board the 'Red Rover, no matter whatever else may be neglected." Jane was setting the table. The dishes that they had purchased were not expensive. Rather were they strong and serviceable, but even at this, the table looked very pretty. Miss Elting had gathered a bunch of wild flowers and these had been placed in a pitcher and stood in the centre of the table.
"Did didn't you find her?" gasped Miss Elting. "No." Jane was gone again, leaving a wake that reached all the way to the beach, so violent had been her floundering dive. Tommy, who had raised her head from the water a short distance from where the guardian was paddling, uttered a scream. "There thhe ith!" she cried; "there she ith! Right down there. Come in a hurry. She ith under the car.
"Surely, you wouldn't paint a 'Red Rover' green, would you?" "I think we had better paint the inside of the boat white," advised Miss Elting. "Then white it shall be," declared Jane. "Mr. Dickinson, you come with me and show me where to get the paint. I'm off, girls. I think we'd better stay at the hotel to-night. Our palatial yacht won't be ready for us." Jane hurried out, followed by Dickinson.
Come, help me get the things out of the carry-all." Harriet ran to the wagon, followed closely by Miss Elting and Margery. Tommy alone held back. Hazel and Jane also hurried forward to assist. "All those who wish their suppers will have to work," cried Harriet Burrell. "We need a fire company more than thupper jutht now," retorted Tommy Thompson.
The bedding and the clothing were next carried out and spread on the ground to dry. This, too, gave the girls on shore something to do. They wrung the water out of the bedding and clothing as thoroughly as possible. The clothing was then hung on nearby bushes. "I do not believe your clothing will be dry enough to wear until after the sun shines on it," decided Miss Elting.
"Yes, and they have taken a good part of the tent with them," called Harriet. The men had halted, not knowing whether they should proceed or not. "Come on! come on!" cried Miss Elting. She could not see the horses, but she could hear them crashing through the bushes whinnying in terror.
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