"I sha'n't stay here all night," the girl said shortly. "You needn't fret. If you want to know, I just built the fire to get warm by before I started back."
"Back where?" Ruth could not help asking.
"That you don't know—and you won't know," returned the strange girl, and turned her back upon them.
CHAPTER XVI
WHAT WAS IN REBECCA'S TRUNK
The two chums did not speak a word to each other until they had recovered their snowshoes and set out down the rough side of Bliss Island for the ice. Then Helen sputtered:
"People like that! Did you ever see such a person? I never was so insulted——"
"Pshaw! She was right—in a way," Ruth said coolly. "We had no real business to pry into her affairs."
"Well!"