Madge Morton's Victory

ke away into smooth curves. Down a long streak of moonlight four dark objects floated above the surface of

kept in advance

Remember, we promised Jenny Ann. My, but isn't this wa

oonlight shone full on a happy face. Th

ed back, "are you all right?

ietly until their two fri

er hand out. "May I float along with you a little, Madge?" she asked. "I am tired. How wide and

danger!" sc

saw first the sails of a small yacht making across the bay with

enough away for them not to see us. It will be rather good fun if the

om the deck of the yacht. "I saw half a dozen women going aboard her this afternoon laden with boxes and tru

e 'Noah's Ark' is a houseboat. It looked very tiny fo

these new persons the cold shoulder. Nobody knows who they are, nor where they come from. It is bad enough to have to

d Eleanor. "What a pe

inctly audible over the water. The boat had

k when there's a chance. I have that rubber ball that Phil and I brought out to play with in the water. Watch me throw it on their yacht. They'll think it's a bomb, or a

d and was swimming along almost completely under the water. She swam in the d

ball came out of nowhere and landed in the center of the group of three young people on

girls not to laugh aloud as naugh

"Oh, dear, what was that?" one girl asked faint

line voice. "Are you really hurt, Mabel? Yo

chair. She was white with

aned. "It may explode any

in Mabel's lap, was surely a round, globular-shaped object that had either dropped from the sky or had be

took hold of Madge's ball. Then she laughed aloud. O

mming. I suppose they threw the ball on board just to frighten us. They certainly were successful." She hurled Madge's ball back over the water, but Roy Dennis's small yacht had gone some di

board the "Merry Maid." "It was a very silly trick that I played. I should hate to

the water for half an hour. That's too long for a first swim. Poor Tania is fast asleep. The child is utterly worn out with so much excitement. Think of never having been out of a crowded city in her life, and then see

the chocolate, "it was my fault we were late. The bad things are always my fault. But we are going to have a perfec

to happen to us this holiday?" pondered

oing to row up the bay in the morning to explore the shore, we shall have to get up early to put the 'Merr

one with her. They did not know how soon they would be able to come on to Cape May; but within a very few days Philip Holt, the goody-goody young m

. But Tania, who was the only one of the party that knew the young man well, burst une