CHAPTER XV
TROUBLE “BRUIN”
The other girls and Mrs. Havel were all down on the beach to meet the catboat and her passengers. To see Wyn and Bessie returning across the lake in the sailboat, instead of the canoes, forewarned the Go-Aheads that an accident had happened.
But although the girls were wet and bedraggled, the captain of the club made light of the affair.
“Where are your canoes?”
“What’s happened?”
“Who is it with you?”
“What under the sun did you do–go overboard?”
Wyn answered all questions in a single sentence:
“We were capsized and lost the letters and things; but Polly picked us up and brought us home.”
Then, amid the excited cries and congratulations, her voice rose again: