I wouldn't wonder but what he might like to
take a motor boat ride in the Petrel."
"Do you suppose he really would steal a boat?" exclaimed Belle.
"He might like to try a motor, I said," replied Cora. "They say
that Jim Peters tries everything on Cedar Lake, even to running a
shooting gallery. But see! He is reading a letter! Where ever did
he get a letter on this barren island?"
"Maybe he carries the mail for the ghost," said Hazel, with a laugh.
CHAPTER IX
JACK AND CORA
"Cora, where is your ring?"
The sister looked at her finger. "Oh Jack," she replied, "I will
get it--but not just now. Why?"
"I thought you always wore that ring when you put on your frills,
and I haven't seen you so dressed up since you came to camp.
Somehow, Cora, I feared you might have lost it."
"I did," she said simply.
"Your new diamond!"
"Yes, but I feel sure of finding it. Now, Jackie dear, please don't
cross question me. I shouldn't have taken it off, but I did, so and
that is how I came to lose it. But I want to tell you something
while we are alone. I saw the ghost of Fern Island to-day."
"Nonsense! A ghost?" sneered Jack. "Why, Cora, if the other girls
said that I should laugh at them."
"Well I want to tell you. We were on the island-the girls and I--
and I got a little away from them when suddenly the wildest looking
man rushed across the path.
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