"We can all swim," put in her sister, "and you promised, Belle, not
to be nervous this trip. Yes, Cora, I'm all ready. I saw the craft
as we came up. Wasn't it the boat with the new light oak deck and
mahogany gunwale? I am sure it was,"
"Yes, isn't she a beauty? I should have been satisfied with any
sort of a good boat, but mother wanted something really reliable,
and she and Jack did it all before I had a chance to interfere."
"I wonder what your mother will next bestow upon you?" asked Belle
with a laugh. "She has such absolute confidence in you."
"Let us hope it will not be a man; we can't let Cora get married,
whatever else she may do," put in Bess, as she shook the dust from
her motor coat, and prepared to follow Cora, who was already leaving
the camp. Belle, too, started, but one could see that she, though
a motor girl, did not exactly fancy experimenting on the water. It
was but a short distance to the lake's edge, for the camp had been
chosen especially on account of the water advantage.
"There she is! See how she stands out in the clear sunshiny water!
I tell you it is the very prettiest boat on Cedar Lake, and that is
saying something," exclaimed Cora, the proud possessor of the new
motor craft.
"Beautiful," reiterated the Robinson twins.
"But what do you know about running it?" queried Belle.
"Why, I have been studying marine motors in general, and have been
shown about this one in particular," replied Cora.
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