Rosa put her arm about Ruth’s neck when the Corner House girls were about to leave.
“This is a heavenly place, Ruth Kenway, and you are an angel for bringing me down heah. I don’t know what greater thing anybody could do fo’ me—and you aren’t even kin!”
“Don’t bother, Rosa. I haven’t done much——”
“There’s nothing in the world—but one thing—that could make me happier.”
Ruth looked at her curiously, and Rosa added:
“To find June. I hope to find her some day—yes, I do.”
“And suppose I should help you do that?” laughed the oldest Corner House girl.
[CHAPTER XV—TWO GIRLS IN A BOAT—TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG!]
“Oh, Dot! do come here. Did you ever see such a funny thing in all your life?”
Tess Kenway was just as earnest as though the discovery she had made was really of great moment. The two bare-legged girls were on the sands below the tent colony of Willowbend, and the tide was out.