The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View; Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand

med Grace. "We'

d have displayed on such an occasion. His stern voice had the desired effect a

ehind a projecting point of land and they were in calmer waters. Allen had let the sail come down on the run, and all danger of capsiz

for those garments had been brought wit

emselves once more. The jib gave way enough to the craft for Allen to head it towa

?" asked Will. "Stay here

t-hello! What's that?" he interrupted hi

n loose from its mo

cohontas I miss my gues

s in this cove. He must have anchored her out, and th

ll be on those rocks in a few minutes mor

the influence of wind and waves, was heading straight toward some half

be done?" d

tain!" put in Betty, thus sustaining

ill. "But to take you

m!" broke in Grace, for the wind an

l be best. Put us on shore and then this boat will be so much easier to handle.

d Allen, admiringly. "We can

he shook her head to rid her flashing eyes of raindrops

d Allen. "I don't like to le

we've roughed it. Besides, there is some sort of a fisherman's shanty there.

re was a hasty conference among the boys, who cast anxious eyes toward their drifting

ack for you,"

n walk back along the beach after the storm. It isn't more tha

len, anxious to get out to the Pocohonta

on this part of the coast before. It was lonesome and deserted, save for one rather shabby hut just above high-water mark. Over beyond some dist

for shelter?" asked Amy,

ing pretty hard,

suddenly, as she looked at a window o

protested Mollie, with

ure, in there, it will smell of-fish! I can't bear to be shut up in a stuffy cabin that smells of fish. I

the smell of-fish?" asked Mollie, in a

s at the window of that hut, and I did not like the look of them-they were-ugh! I don't know w

tones now, for Grace and Amy had walked on

d Betty. "It was hard-cruel-o

he rain is sto

u say, girls?" she called to Amy and Grace. "Shall we walk back?

e Amy, always willin

have to, if the boys don't

e, they have just reached the boat, and in time, too, I

ing the Pocohontas. Through the clearing air the gir

ey can come for us," repeated B

ce, who did not altogether relish the idea of wa

I'll give them some sign language they'll understand," and she began wav

ill understand that

ll," answ

"Then this isn't the first time you h

irls," and she strode off down the we

in that hut," observed Mollie, w

xclaimed Betty. "Oh,

ugglers!" dec

manded Grace, quickly, turning ar

y, and Grace resumed her

of the coast hid the boys from sight, and the

atmosphere became clearer, and, some distance down the

. "We haven't done enough walking lately,

ome high sand dunes they heard th

e boys?" asked

that sound came from in front. See, there it is-a motor boat,"

o the craft which, because of the shallow

of the girls-an unexpected sight, it would appear-for some of them seemed a

eer!" comm

" aske

me of them do, and others don't," went on Betty. "