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It was Elfreda Briggs who made the discovery. She called to Grace, who was near by, to come to her. Grace uttered an exclamation as she ran up to Miss Briggs, who stood pointing to a little tent nestling at the base of a rocky peak. "Is that Tom's tent?" asked Elfreda. "No, but we will have a look at it."
She did not appear to see the others. During the progress of the meal she said little, keeping up a pretense of indifference as to what went on around her. Nevertheless her eyes strayed more than once toward the end of the table where Elfreda was entertaining the girls sitting nearest to her with a ludicrous account of what had happened to her on her way back to Overton.
He began clawing at the pack of provisions and tearing with his teeth at the tough canvas covering, and had it open before Elfreda realized what he was up to. "He is eating up our food!" she exclaimed under her breath. Miss Briggs raised her rifle to fire. She lowered it ever so little as a new thought occurred to her. "I'll do it!" she declared, laying the rifle on the ground beside her.
Youth is in its hey day; Hail we this gay day; Park clouds away day. "And then down comes the rain and spoils it all," finished the versifier, lapsing into prose. Emma's improvisation was greeted with laughter. "It sounds just about as sensible as a whole lot of those old English verses," declared Elfreda, who was not fond of poetry.
The An Miss Atkins has forgiven me, peace has been restored and we are going out to dine, arm in arm." Elfreda pranced jubilantly about the room, then flinging open the door of the wardrobe brought forth two large boxes that had come by express the day before, one of them containing her new spring hat, the other a smart suit of natural pongee.
Soon after that the camp settled down to quietness, with Hippy Wingate and Elfreda Briggs on guard, Grace having consented to lie down and sleep for the rest of the night provided. They were undisturbed, except when, shortly before daylight, something again aroused the ponies, but the disturbance quickly subsided, and the watchers believed that some animal had startled them.
They had come to a halt at the end of the platform and were waiting for Tom to secure a car. Elfreda surveyed Miriam with a threatening glare. "Elfreda says that you" she darted a mischievous glance at her friend "look just as she imagined you would." Elfreda's expression was a mixture of surprise and relief. "Then you are not disappointed in me," smiled the old lady.
How could you have missed such an opportunity?" wondered Miss Briggs. "I did not miss it, Elfreda dear. I got beautifully lost and didn't know it. Most persons when they get lost are very much alive to the fact, but I traveled on in blissful ignorance of the fact that I was headed straight for Death Valley." "I wish you wouldn't talk about it.
"So that's your idea of true friendship, is it?" demanded an angry, choking voice that caused the surprised young women to start and look toward the door. Elfreda stepped into the room, her face flushed with anger, her blue eyes fairly snapping. "You make a great fuss over me when there's nothing going on, but none of you would invite me to go with you to New York, when you know I'm crazy to go.
"The twenty-sixth of February," replied Grace. "It must have been on the way for weeks." "And in Emma's pocket longer," was Miriam's sly comment. "But he should have arrived long before this," persisted Elfreda. "I wonder if he received Ruth's letter." "Perhaps he didn't start as soon as he intended," said Anne. "That may be so.
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