And the girls were. In the succeeding volume, The Hermit of Pirate Light, will be told what happened when the girls spent another summer together.
Several times during the remainder of the season at Marshlands, Arden and her chums visited Dimitri at his houseboat. He finished Arden’s portrait, which was later exhibited in New York, and the fact was made the occasion for a little party attended by Olga and Serge. Olga seemed a much different person, now that she had some money from the sale of the Czar’s snuffbox, which brought a very large sum. Dimitri also gave his brother part of the price. As for himself, he never seemed to care about money.
“My art is everything,” he said. Truly it seemed so.
Chief Reilly, who was a guest at the “picture party,” as it was called, admitted that George Clayton had left a telephone message telling about his prisoner and urging that he be released.
“But, shucks,” said the chief, “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”
“If he says that again,” threatened Sim, “I’ll run home.”
But the chief didn’t.
THE END
