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Then, having finished that, he fixed his big eyes on Mr. Lagg, and demanded: "Oo dot any tandy?" "Candy!" cried the eccentric store keeper. "Ha, I have a couplet about that. "If you would feel both fine and dandy, Just buy a pound of Lagg's best candy!" "That is irresistible!" exclaimed Will. "Trot out a pound of the most select." "With pleasure," said Mr. Lagg.
"I mean I haven't made up any poetry about that. I have about almost everything else in my store. Let me see soda soda " He seemed searching for a rhyme. "Pagoda! Pagoda!" laughed Betty. "That is it!" exclaimed Mr Lagg. "Thank you for the suggestion. Let me see, now. How would this do? "If you wish to drink of Lagg's fine soda, Just take your seat in a Chinese pagoda!"
It was soon adjusted and the Gem proceeded. "I'll always be on the lookout for that first, when there is any trouble after this," said Betty, as she thanked the stranger. "Oh, that isn't the only kind of trouble that can develop in a motor," he assured her. But Betty well knew this herself. They had passed Elm Island soon after leaving Mr. Lagg's store, but saw no sign of life on it.
Then a hasty trip was made back to camp. "Oh, I'm so glad!" cried Grace. "Now I can really enjoy camping and cruising. You must telephone papa at once." Which Will did, the whole party going over to Mr. Lagg's store in the motor boat. "Yes, I have the papers safe," Will told Mr. Ford. "Yes, I'll mail them at once. What's that Dodo tell Mollie Dodo is over the operation and is going to get well?
Lagg's special line of jollity?" she asked Mollie. "Oh, he makes up little verses as he waits on you. You'll see," was Mollie's answer. I often stop in for a little something to eat when I am out rowing. He is a nice old gentleman, very polite, and he has lots of queer stories to tell." "Has he dot any tandy?" inquired Paul, eagerly. "Oh, you dear, of course he has!" cried his sister.
Then we'll watch, and when Prince comes I'll catch him." The boys voted this plan a good one. They went over to Mr. Lagg's store in the Gem to get a supply of fodder for the trap. "A horse on the island!" exclaimed Mr. Lagg. So that's the ghost; eh? Well, it's very likely, but it sort of spoils the story; "A ghostly ghost a ghost in white Appearing in the darkest night.
"You'll find my chocolates sweet and good, To eat on lake or in the wood!" Mr. Lagg's attention being diverted to a net subject, he did not press his question. Thus the girls escaped committing themselves. "I think we are going to have a storm," remarked Betty, when they were under way again, cruising down the lake toward Triangle Island, where they expected to call on some friends.
"No," answered Grace, "and we've never gotten a trace of Prince, or the missing papers. Papa is much worried." "Well, let's talk about something more pleasant," suggested Betty. "Shall we start off again?" "Might as well," agreed Grace. "And as it isn't far to that funny Mr. Lagg's store, let's stop and " "Get some candy and poetry," sniped Amy, with a laugh.
"Know anything about Elm Island, Mr. Lagg?" asked Frank, as he inspected some fishing tackle. "Well, yes, I might say I do," and Mr. Lagg pursed up his lips. "Is it a good place?" "Oh, it's good all right, but " and he hesitated. "What is the matter?" demanded Betty quickly. She thought she detected something strange in Mr. Lagg's manner.
There was nothing for Grace and Amy to do but give in which they did, rather timidly, be it confessed. "And now let's go for a ride," proposed Betty, after lunch. "There are some things I want to get at Mr. Lagg's store." "Will you tell him about the ghost?" asked Grace. "Certainly not. It may be," said Betty, "that some one is playing a joke on us.
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