"It is quite valuable, you know."
"I heard them say so, and now that the other girl is gone I'll tell
you this much. Never you go over to that shack again," and the
woman raised a warning finger. "It was a good thing you met me
instead of Jim Peters the day you did go over. They'll be like
tigers when they find I've got the ring. It was last night that
gave me the chance. They had been out very late, and Tony didn't
have any letters to copy so he fell asleep and--and I slipped away
with it. I slept a bit under a tree, but indeed I was glad to see
daylight."
"And you have been out all night? You must not think of taking a
journey without first having something to eat. If you are afraid to
come up to camp I'll have something put in the boat for you,"
declared Cora. "But let me ask you, did you overhear anything about
a girl named Miss Blake? I saw Jones leave a hall where she was
singing last night, and I suspect he met her as she went out. My
brother followed, but I have not seen him since. He stops at the
boys' camp," Cora explained.
"Blake? So that was the pretty girl who sang. Well, she had better
be careful that she doesn't join the ghosts at Fern Island," said
the woman, mysteriously.
"I know the girl. She's from my home place. And that is why my
brother went to see that nothing happened to her," Cora said.
"Well, you are good people, one can see that," declared Kate.
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