“Whoa! Hullo, Miss!” exclaimed a hoarse voice. “Glad I found you up. Here’s a message for you.”
“For me?” cried Heavy, and dripping as she was, ran out to the carriage.
“Sign on this place, Miss. Here’s a pencil. Thank you, Miss; it’s paid for. That’s the message,” and he put a telegraph envelope into her hand.
On the outside of the envelope was written, “Stone, Lighthouse Point.” Under the lamp on the porch Heavy broke the seal and drew out the message, while the whole party stood waiting. She read it once to herself, and was evidently immensely surprised. Then she read it out loud, and her friends were just as surprised as she was:
“Stone, Lighthouse Point, Sokennet.–Hold onto her. I am coming right down. “W. Hicks.”
CHAPTER XX
“WHAR’S MY JANE ANN?”
Three of Heavy’s listeners knew in an instant what the telegram meant–who it was from, and who was mentioned in it–Ruth, Helen and Tom. But how, or why the telegram had been sent was as great a mystery to them as to the others; therefore their surprise was quite as unfeigned as that of the remaining girls and boys.
“Why, somebody’s made a mistake,” said Heavy. “Such a telegram couldn’t be meant for me.”
“And addressed only to ‘Stone,’” said her aunt. “It is, of course, a mistake.”