it isn't the Mea

ed to meet their old friend whom, last season, they had be

g their welcome before they had fairly landed. With Captain Baker were his friends Dill Dodd and

sked Miss Elting laughingly, hurrying

ut two miles

r. Goheen before," said the guardian. "

. After the storm of last night I wondered how the houseboat with its crew of girls had fared,

out of the boat nearly all night, Cap

d a bad night," returned Ge

d briefly the exper

iringly. "And I take off my coat too. Fellows, all off with

o had been looking about the deck

re pretty well soaked up. If you will permit it, we fellows will clean up. The

shook th

utht pan," T

at and a pail,

the boat, having di

Harriet. "We need some coffee this morning, bu

ou make

he boys worked steadily in the houseboat. Finding nails, saw and hammer, they patched up the broken door and hung it back in place. Then they removed all the supplies that had been left aboard and began cleaning up. They bailed

the girls to hang up the wet bedding. By this time the lads were hungry. They readily accepted the invitation of the Meadow-Brook Girls to sit down with them to breakfast. The table and chairs had been brought ashore, and there in the

during breakfast. "When you wish to shift your position, l

thing to be done, after getting the equipment back on board, would be to tow the "Red Rover" off the shore. To do thi

aunch, took Harriet and Jane to town, where Jane wished to go to renew some of their supplies, as well as to purc

ained from mentioning the fact that their anchor rope had been cut on that occasion. From George's questions it was plain t

on the lake. He was to furnish the launch for their cruises, while the boys supplied the camp equipment. Billy knew the lake and they knew how to camp,

d their purchases with little loss of time, and were back on

started on their return voyage, "

to the boat and discuss with the girls

s there anywhere you wish

, "I think I should like to get out of

front of our camp? We'll be handy

shook

see, we wish to go it alone. We don't

dow-Brook Girls against the world," declared George, confidently, which aroused a l

d, you

ten out of the scrape wi

"We always do get out of our scrapes,

en you asked me if there were any place we wished to go, that we d

lly. "I'll take you over t

shook

done. It will take us two days to get well settled again. You will look us up occas

husiastically. "But I'm sorry you w

heir vacation. George said that the boys, too, were going to move their camp now and then. He told the girls the Tramp Club had planned to spen

remained behind had gotten nearly all the belongings aboard. Miss Elting and th

Harriet said she must look for the anchor

"You ought to make it secure, so tha

ed it over the cleat on the deck. I don't see how the boat could

rmed. Captain George launched the boat and rowed out, paddling about unt

"Yes, I've found it, and I've found something

u mean?" ca

I come in. I've made

that more than confirmed the suspicio