“No, I didn’t think of that,” Jack confessed. “Very well, I’ll not go off alone again, and anyhow we shall probably not have another mascot to lose.”
CHAPTER X
THE BOYS
While Jack went to her mother to report, Nan betook herself to the tent where she found Mary Lee, Daniella and Jo in kimonos lying on their cots “fooling” in a manner most girls have. “Guess what, girls?” cried Nan poking in her head. “Such an adventure!”
“Do come in and tell us about it,” responded Jo. “Things are beginning to pall on this crowd and we want some excitement. What have you been doing?”
“Did you find Jack?” asked Mary Lee.
“Yes, I found her and in the finding came the adventure.”
“Where did you go?”
“Fortunately I went up the lake instead of down. I remembered the last time we were out together she said we had never gone into a certain little inlet and that she meant to explore it some day. So I paddled up that far, got out and discovered an Indian’s tent, one of those basket-makers, you know. Well, you remember how Jack always makes the acquaintance of any one who happens to come along, so I thought I would inquire at the tent if she had been that way, and learned that she had gone along about noon, had inquired the way to our camp, and then had taken the path leading in the opposite direction. That decided me to follow her track and here came the adventure. I was going slowly along, looking this way and that, when suddenly out of a little log house, which I had never seen before, darted a mediæval princess.”
“You don’t by any chance mean a middle-aged lady?” inquired Jo lazily.