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Hinpoha complied, and the effect of her voice coming apparently from beneath Tiny's ribs, while Tiny's mouth up above remained closed, was a great deal funnier than the first way. "Never mind," said Migwan firmly, while the rest wept with laughter on each other's shoulders, "it sounds more like Tiny than the other way.
They sat there drifting back and forth with the current for several hours, and then suddenly there was a break in the white curtain and two bright eyes looked down at them from above. "It's the Twins!" cried Hinpoha delightedly. "The Sailors' Stars. They have come to guide us back. Don't you remember, they're always directly in front of us when we come home from St. Pierre in the evening."
He said very little about the proposed fast, either to encourage or discourage him; simply gave his consent. Hinpoha regarded the Captain with wondering admiration. She also burned with the desire to do something hard, to prove that girls as well as boys can practise self-control. "Oh, Captain," she said, "if you keep the fast I'll keep the silence! I'll not speak a word for three days."
Clearly she was unworldly to the point of narrowness, and Hinpoha began to reflect that, after all, she might be somewhat of a wet blanket on the Winnebago doings if she came and joined the group. Pearl showed such marked disapproval of Gladys when she remarked that she wished her father were in town so they could have gone to the races that an awkward silence fell on the group.
Nyoda hesitated, fishing for a "J." "One, two, three, four, five, six," began Sahwah. "Jewelry!" cried Nyoda on the tenth count. "Knitted goods," continued Gladys. "Lamps," said Migwan. "Macaroni," said Sahwah. "That reminds me," said Mrs. Evans, "I meant to order some macaroni to-day and forgot it." "N," said Hinpoha, "N, why, Nothing!"
"But I want you to understand once for all that I won't have any girls holding 'meetings' here, to upset the house and break valuable ornaments." "But you don't care if I go to them at other girls' houses, do you?" asked Hinpoha, the fear gripping her that she was to be denied the consolation of these weekly gatherings with the Winnebagos.
The telegraph office was in the railway station and she and Hinpoha sat down after sending the wire and waited for the ship to come in, wondering what the other girls would think when they failed to come back with the gasoline. It was past dinnertime but there was no dinner for them as long as they had no money. From jaunty tourist to penniless pauper in two hours is quite a change.
"Let's play something," said Sahwah when the apples and popcorn had disappeared; "I'm tired of sitting still." "Can't somebody please think of a new game?" said Hinpoha. "We've played everything we know until I'm sick of it." "I thought of one the other day," said Gladys quietly.
Evans to forego her pleasure because of Hinpoha, and gave a grudging consent to her keeping her niece with her on the condition that she would bring her home in the machine and not let her come back in the launch with the Winnebagos. Jubilant, they returned to the girls in the gorge and told the good news. "Cheer for Mrs. Evans," cried Sahwah, and the Winnebagos gave it with a hearty good will.
By and by Sahwah looked around and missed her. "Where's Oh-Pshaw?" she asked. "I don't know," replied Hinpoha, noticing for the first time that she was no longer in the tent. "She was here a minute ago." "She'd better run and hide," sputtered Agony, still vindictive in her wounded pride.
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