"Shall that be a rule?" laughed Eunice.
"No, miss. But suppose we make this a rule—how many rules have we now?"
"Three," said Edna, referring to the constitution.
"Then rule four: 'The paper shall be read on Wednesday afternoons, at three o'clock, in Rocky Nook.' Why, girls! I made up that name just then!" interrupting herself, in her surprise.
"It's a splendid name," the girls said.
"We might call it 'Exiles' Bower,'" laughed Edna, teasingly, for the boys had given that name to Bear Island since the girls' imprisonment there.
"If you like," said Cricket, the unteasable, serenely.
"Don't you think that the next rule ought to be that we won't tell the boys?" asked Edna. "I just know they will tease us out of our senses."
So rule five was duly registered, to the effect that strict secrecy was to be observed, and that they would tell no one but grandma and Auntie Jean.
"There must be another by-law," put in Cricket, reflectively, here, "for we must have some badges, like Marjorie's society."