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"Saw him go out to Brightwater in a motor boat this morning," Louise said. "Well, we simply have got to keep up our troop tactics until we run this down," declared Cleo. "Think of her saying we tried to drown the boy!" "And she called him Bentley. That's rather a pretty name. He surely doesn't belong to her class," said Grace.
He knew very well that even if he opened them he would equally see nothing, but it gave him some comfort to imagine he was shutting out a view it were better not to look at. He managed to get Cleo to eat and drink a little, and when she was calmer she told him the theatre was to open the next evening just as if they had scored a great success.
Cleo, Grace, Margaret and Louise won the post for True Treds, they having outdistanced the boys who were led by Tommie Johnson, and who was said to stumble purposely so that the girls might reach the pier first. However that might be, the True Treds liked Tommie, and he seemed to like them "pretty well," as Grace expressed it.
"Well, I believe there is a branch railroad line about ten miles away," said Captain Clark, "and if we have to " "We can walk, of course!" interrupted Cleo. "That's a mere sprint. A ten-mile hike is a trifle." "Did you say triffle or truffle?" asked Grace. "Truffles don't grow here, nothing but mushrooms and toadstools," broke in Margaret. "All Girl Scouts ought to know that!"
There were several automobiles waiting by the wharf and Madame de Brie, half-dumb and slightly agitated, having pointed out the car she had reserved for Cléo, the girl introduced Raft. "This is Raft who saved my life," said Cléo. Then she took Raft by the arm and pushed him into the seat beside the chauffeur; having done that, she got into the car, following Madame de Brie.
So perhaps that's a regular human weakness and not peculiar to raw scouts, rookies, I suppose I should say." "I am so glad your mother approved, Cleo. I feel better now. I must confess I was rather crestfallen after all our noble, heroic, spectacular stunts. But sufficient unto the day is the trouble thereof, as some one has remarked.
"And we might also get a visit from friend fire-bug," cautioned Grace. "And I don't know whether our cottage is insured or not. But I do know it has lovely furniture and mother says it's a perfect joy to come into a house, all spick and span without having to do the spicking. No, Cleo, please don't invite the Weasle to call." "I have a tiny dance card pencil," offered Louise.
"We have only been down a week," remarked Cleo, "but I have noticed smoke almost every morning out in those woods over the river. I suppose some one lives that way, do they?" "You mean on the island," he explained.
"I did," replied Julia, but it was a solo. "Then, we will all have to look over your shoulder, Julia dear," said Cleo. "It would be dreadful if we missed a letter." "How are we going to get in the contest though? That's what worries me," declared Helen. "First, find out all about it," advised Cleo practically. "Then, follow the advice of our friend what's-his-name at the landing.
"A couple of huts in there, but no place for you girls to go visitin'," he finished, as if divining the plan already shaping itself in the minds of Grace and Cleo a trip to Looney Land. "Why Looney Land?" asked Cleo. "Queer folks out there?" "Dunno as any folks is out there, but places get named somehow, just like they get trees, no plantin' just come that way.
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