urry! My dress

frantically waved to her b

ice time to think-of dresses-

they'll sink-and be d

Will, as he glanced over his shoulder to get his course straight. "Th

can't swim. Oh, d

get me. You'd look nice rescuing four girls all alo

protested Percy

"Anyhow, it's lucky I

the boat ready," said the well-dressed lad, whose att

rcy. I'll give yo

ried Mollie. "We'll be

d Will. "Pull

can

med to be all there was t

nto the water, enabled the rescue to be made. For it was no easy task to disembark from one craft to the other, especially with one nearly submerged. But, while Will and Percy held the gunwale of their boat

d Mollie, wringing some water

the second time I've worn it!" cried

pressing," said W

your trousers?" demanded his sister,

e Amy. "But it doesn't mat

t it!" exclaimed Will. "H

," explained Mollie, se

Will remarked as the boat from which the girls

e it?" cried Moll

en it to the painter. It will probably drift, but it will r

thers into the craft that Percy had commandeered for the occasion, the two boys ro

can get dry, and Will can go for

y, eagerly. And for once the g

s. The twins saw them coming, and, grave

t," rema

wet," ech

e. "Why did you take the plug-the wooden p

the ancient privilege of the accus

me from the little

it back," as

and sister and her frie

hty children-

emanded Dodo, fixing

nd sakes, no! C

tandy,"

te, startled at the sight

in?" she asked, wi

ng. "It's all right, momsey, but we must get

etter telephone,"

chorused

them in suitcases as soon as might be. Then the drenched ones made themselv

re seriously was due to a c

really useful," co

red Grace. "He'll think we are his eternal debtor

least on the verge of getting there, the four came out to

s happens when we set of

comfortable then

ther, when one considers the possibility-had one good effect. It had raised Amy ou

I say nothing of moment, and yet there was, for the story of the mystery co

ed to draw her out about the matter. This made it hard for Amy, and she was s

Grace and Mollie, there came a more rational feeling, and i

t from her actions, for she was at first defiant, and then contrite, and several times it was

d. Alice was not generally liked, but the three chums were so pleasant to her, in contrast

the hole were of some service afterward, though rather stained by river water. The

remained in Mr. Nelson's safe. The advertisement about it was published again, and though there were s

at mystery," said Grace. "Maybe unti

rney had rapidly been completed.

ckford. There we're due to stop with my aunt. We can take lunch whereve

id Mollie. "A night on a c

l put us up, and then, in turn to Simpson's Corners-that's my uncle, you know-to Flatbush, where Grace's mother's niece has kindly consented

d to glance over the schedul

sin lives, and that will be our last stop

good," sa

ou sure your-your aunt and uncle won't have

I might be upset on hearing of the mystery that t

Betty, as she put her arms

g hard, for, because of the need of some repairs to the

e simple exercises, and the farewell to the grad

r!" exclaimed Mollie, as she and the others came out