take him?" asked

ill rowed with Margaret, while Julia c

so lifeless! Co

features seemed more than d

ce. "Let me help you pull," she as

nd it was with difficulty the girls ma

l any one?" s

d Louise. "We spent more time than

Margaret whispered. "He had only

ad was, and with what evident care he had been dressed. His glass

touched his boat," said Louise. "I shoul

He did not seem to know he was on the water. But isn't it to

uld serve the strokes, and it took but a few mo

the dock the captain there, seeing something

What happene

hurry to revive him," pleaded J

il boy up in his arms and carried him up the

ia. "See, he is moving! Oh,

ring her nervous companions. "Still, I am glad to see he

n't do anything to help. Let's row out and bring in his b

t again, and only watched the excitement from the distance. Presently they heard

ar," said Cleo. "Dear me, do you suppose

sily have been lost if we hadn't. Somehow he seemed half asleep. He

help observing a number of folded slips of yellow paper that lay tossed aside, in the bottom of t

No one was near, and when the scouts turned in their oa

t?" asked C

all right," replied the bo

" asked Gra

quiet and queer-just reads his eyes out-no wonder he wears goggles

ere each conscious of a dread, and the bo

y. "Are you the girls who rescued him? Well, he especia

ther thanking us," returned Cleo, as

? I'm a scout too, but we haven't any girls'

alk to the boy after he revived? Was he per

ong, he's such a stick. Excuse me, here's where I sell a real order," and he

t fulfilled his promise to get their names; neith

ed Cleo. "Somehow, it isn't nice

in his life, but I don't ever want to see him as quiet as that. And say, girls-" and she drew as ma

the fire-bug!" p

on Grace, now really serious. "But I tho

mused Cleo. "I'm glad we got out of leaving our names. He

d since the accident; and to demonstrate the possible torch bearing, Cleo paraded on ahead with

ret, when the town was reached, and the group

re there?"

n't ever want to see a crab again as long as I li

o telling what our Wise Willie may turn out to be, an

us," pleaded Julia, "and I didn't

owed her na?ve remark must certainly have dispelled the quakes, f

them," and she dragged the girls over to a little

d Louise, breaking off some tall grass ends.

ong. Mother expects folks to dinner. I had a lovely time-" she stopped to allow the girls' laugh time to penetrate.

race. "You had a lovely time holding Willie'

lim figure-the girls called it svelt-still proclaiming her the little girl, in spite of her grown up m

garet, "we haven't any one to shell them,

hem grow up," suggested Cleo, drawing a long

em! I hope they make you a lovely sala