Josiah Crabtree found a seat for the widow, and both chatted pleasantly. In the meantime a crowd commenced to collect on the dock.
“Yes, I dearly love music,” the widow was saying.
“Music is grand,” answered Josiah Crabtree. “I often think——”
What the teacher thought was not expressed, for just then from one of the dress-suit cases came the shrill rattle of one of the alarm clocks.
CHAPTER X
OFF FOR THE ENCAMPMENT
“Oh, dear me!” shrieked the widow. “What in the world is that?”
“I—I don’t know!” answered the teacher, as he surveyed the suit-case in wonder.
“Time to get up!” observed a man standing nearby. And at this sally several persons laughed.
“You evidently are carrying an alarm clock,” said the widow to Josiah Crabtree.
“I—er—I didn’t know it,” was the answer. “I—er—wish the thing would stop!”