The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm; Or, Bessie King's New Chum

eeming to steady him so that he could talk intelligibly. "You tell me I

sed to go to Mr. Jamieson and tell him what you knew. No one made you any promises

at Eleanor

a' known she was playing a trick on me-gettin' me to stay here and eat a

fore you had your supper because I knew that if I didn't do something to keep you he

e. "Why shouldn't you let me

any good by getting fresh to this lady, I can tell you that. You're pretty well sc

the man he feared, shut his lips obstinately, and wou

ld tell me about that, anyhow. You've been up to some mischief, and they've

to be true, although he still

just what you've done, but I'll find out, and I'll see that you are turned over to the proper authorities-unless you can do something that wil

comes to that, I've always found that crooks will desert their best friends if it seems to them that they'll get so

u'll have to go to jail for a little while, anyhow. But you're safer there than you would be if you were free. We're all willing to be yo

"I ain't got nothin' to tell you, becau

"It's quite evident that we'll get nothing out of him to-night. And I

taken away. As soon as he was out of si

coming off here pretty soon. I'm not at liberty to tell you what it is yet, but I had a long talk on

ll us, if you've promised not to do it,

those who had no more of an acquaintance with her than Billy Trenwith. But he had done it so naturally, and with so

ing to find something out from

he others of his gang can't help him. I don't think he's naturally bad or vicious-I think he's just weak. He was spoiled by his mother, wasn't he? He acts the way a good many boys

have come here with some vague idea of telling us what he knew. But suppose he has seen Holmes

ely. "I thought of it, too. You mean he might have been h

was here, too," said Dolly. "He was sneaking around, and he

were eating supper I would never have thought of going after him, either. But she seem

me like this. I'm going to have a couple of my men-detectives-stay around here to-night to keep an eye on things. I

st confess that all these things worry me, and I'll feel a lot safer if I know that we are not entirely

desperate-that their time is getting short. They feel that if they don't succeed soon they never will, because it will be

, no matter what time it is. If I'm out at any time you do have to call me, I'll leave word w

is coming heralded some new attempt by Holmes, rather than a desire on his part to confess. But the night passed without anything to rou

as there were at Long Lake. We're all in sight of the camp and of one another all the tim

ed enough last night but I feel a whole lot better now. I'm glad it's such a beautiful day.

t is, if Miss Eleanor says it's all right. There's a lot more

n you told me I'd love the seashore, Dolly. Do you remem

, just as it does me. So you've gi

that the seashore has attractive things about it, too. And I thi

with a real breeze, and a good sea running. That's

im, taken before the meal, more than made up for the lack of proper rest. And after breakfast Dolly asked permission to go

d to boating and sailing-with the added restriction that no girl who did not know how to swim well enough to pas

r question. "And will you take me with you? I'd lik

u along," said Dolly.

the water, but you never can tell-it's squally to-day, and we might be upset. And that's one thing I don't believe in taking chances with. A cramp will make th

the previous afternoon. The wind had changed and become much heavier, and as the Eleanor went along, she dipped her bow continually, so that the spray

ter they had been enjoying the sport for half an h

stands it well enough not to make any mistakes. A boat like this takes a good deal of

aid Eleanor, after watching the Defiance for a few m

olly tacked, the Defiance followed her, drawing nearer all the time. Since Dolly had no sort of defini

n beat us to-day when there's plenty of wind," said

p straight on now for a little while and see if she

the boats, as well as the skippers, were very evenly matched. Since there was no agreement to race, Dolly had the choice of

n either sloop. They were satisfied with the fun of this impromptu racing. But at last, when they were perhaps a mile fr

y," she said. "Suppose I give Gladys

ht," agr

r, and Gladys answered with a wave of her hands. She s

now. Want to r

ly. She had been quick, but Dolly was just as quick, and th

defeat, since, to reach the opening, Gladys would either have to get far enough ahead to cross the Eleanor's bows or else to cross behind her, which would entail so much loss of time that Dolly would be c

the bar the Eleanor actually carried more canvas than Gladys dared to keep on the Defiance. Being less used to heavy going than Dolly, she wa

Eleanor's bows seemed to be impossible for her to attain. The Eleanor

d square this time," said Eleanor, excitedly

's got no right to do it!" She shouted loudly. "Gladys! Gladys

rious at the trick, Dolly put her helm hard

f she did a thing like that, the other boat would run her down, and would win on a

it was enough to throw her off her course and make i

, quietly. "I think she's quite welcome to the race, if sh

wrong. By some mistaken handling of her helm she had lost her proper direction, and to her amazement Bessie saw the boom come over sh

ard. Gladys had gone straight down, but Bessie had marked the spot, and she dived as she reached it, and met her coming up. She clutched her in a moment, and was on the surface almost at once, holding Gladys, and looking for Dolly and the