CHAPTER XXIV
TOM ROVER’S ANNOUNCEMENT
Fred and May had gone up to the topmost point of the cliff overlooking Barlight Bay. Here they could get a view not only of the water front, but likewise of the Colby Hall camp stretched out in the clearing to the northeast of the woods. The wind was blowing rather freely, and presently the youngest Rover noticed that the girl beside him shivered.
“Why, you are cold, May! You should have brought your coat along,” Fred declared.
“I wish I had,” May answered.
“Let me run back and get it.”
“Oh, don’t bother, Fred. We won’t stay up here so very long.”
“It’s no bother at all. It will take me only a few minutes to get it,” answered the young lieutenant gallantly, and began to climb down the rocks.
It did not take Fred long to reach a point where the cliff was more level, and then he hurried off in the direction where the knapsacks and the wraps had been left.