Think what it would mean if the boys had knocked my
engine out. And it did seem for a time that there was no 'if' in
it." Cora jumped lightly out of the boat and was ready to greet the
other girls. Soon a discussion of color and its causes was in
progress, Cora maintaining that her cause of anxiety had been that
awful engine and its troubles.
Ed, Walter and Jack had joined the others.
"I say," began Ed, "where do we, go to look for the wild Olive or
was it the mountain Laurel? Jack is in a fit, and Walter can't be
held. What do you say if we all start out in a searching party? No
one has been lost for twenty-four hours, and this state of affairs
is getting monotonous."
Without waiting for an answer the girls and boys clambered into the
Petrel while Bess went to the camp with Cora who insisted upon
washing her hands before making the trip.
"Did anything happen, Cora, while we were away?" asked Bess kindly.
"Not a thing, Bess. I only wish something real would happen; we
have so many imitations of excitement."
CHAPTER XXII
THE LAW AND THE LIGHTS
"I want to find her this time," insisted Jack. "Cora, please let
me? I promise not to frighten her, and not even to speak to her if
you object, but I do so want to find her."
"Seems to me you found her last time," objected Walter who was
looking particularly well to-night, for his suit of Khaki and his
brown skin seemed all of a piece.
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