lauriette

Updated: June 6, 2025

I don't care who it is," cried Helen, starting to run through the bushes. "We'll hail them and ask them for rescue." But when she came in sight of the craft, to Ruth's surprise Helen did not at once shout. Ruth only saw the bow of the boat coming down stream herself; but suddenly she marked the small name-board with its gilt lettering: LAURIETTE "Here's Chess, I do believe!" she cried.

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence: The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands

Hammond, who likewise attended the dance, allowed the girl to wear this finery, which really was part of the "props" of the company. Launches were engaged from Chippewa Bay to take most of those from the camp who attended the dance, either as participants in the costume review or as spectators, but Chess Copley arranged to come for his particular friends in the Lauriette.

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence: The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands

It was fully an hour after the Lauriette had chugged away from the dock at the island where the moving picture company was established that the motor-boat which had been to Oak Point returned with Tom Cameron aboard.

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence: The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands

He headed the Lauriette for the camp then, and they arrived there in a rather serious mood. "You might have been mistaken, I suppose, Miss Ruth?" suggested Mr. Hammond, the president of the film corporation, sitting at his desk in the room of the main bungalow which he used as an office. "It was growing dark when that speed boat passed you and your friend, was it not?" "Not out on the river, Mr.

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence: The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands

But these soft, hazy nights had their own charm and Ruth had come to love them. Especially on the water. Amid the tamarack-clothed islets the motor-boats crept in and out in a delightful way. To lie on the cushions in the cockpit of the Lauriette and bask in the pearly starlight was an experience the girl from Cheslow was not likely to forget.

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence: The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands

And I know Helen or or anybody, won't mind if you wear this little trinket. When you wear it remember you've got a good friend whose initials are engraved on the inside." Ruth accepted the present frankly, for she liked Chess. But she did not know how beautiful the bracelet was until after Copley had disappeared in his Lauriette.

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence: The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands