I believe Jim Peters has
something to do with it for I saw him coming away from there with a
letter. Now what would he be doing with a letter out on a barren
island?"
"Oh Jim is a foxy one. I wouldn't trust him as far as the end of my
nose. But here come the others. Will you go over to the Casino
this evening."
"Yes, we had planned to go. That is why I am dressed up. Hazel may
have to go to town to-morrow, and I want her to see something before
she goes," replied Cora, just as the girls, and Walter, Ed and Paul
strode up to the bungalow.
"Oh! we have had the greatest time," blurted out Bess. "Cora, you
should have been with us. Ben got angry with Jim Peters, and he and
Dan threatened to throw Jim overboard, and--"
"Jim seems to have a hankering after fights," put in Ed. "I haven't
settled with him yet."
"Ed, you promised me you would call that off," Cora reminded him.
"You know it was all about me, and you have given me your promise
not to take it up again. That Jim Peters is an ugly man."
"All the same we heard that you were not afraid of him," said Walter
with a tug at Cora's elbow. "Didn't you beard the lion in his den?"
"Who said I did?" asked Cora flushing.
"I promised--crossed my heart not to tell," said Walter. "But all
the same the folks at the landing are talking about the pretty girl
who went all the way up the cove, and stopped at the place where
Peters and his pal land.
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