“‘Dear Sis and all:
“‘A most remarkable thing has happened. I haven’t been real sure whether I am afoot or horseback since I heard about it! Mother and Dad both say we can go, and the we means all the girls in the Sunnyside Club and all the Jolly Pirates. Now, if you are properly curious, I’ll tell you where we are going. Uncle Jack and Aunt Dahlia are sailing for Europe this week and they have loaned us that wonderful island of theirs in the St. Lawrence River for the summer. We will have a great old camping-party all through the month of August, that is, if you can find some older person to stay in the cabin with you girls. See you soon, and then you’ll hear all about it.
“‘Your Buddie.’”
“Oh, Della, what fun that will be,” Doris Drexel exclaimed. “I simply adore camping.”
The other girls were equally overjoyed at the prospect, but a gong was calling them to various tasks and so they had to leave the choosing of a chaperone until another day.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
OLD FRIENDS ARRIVE
“I’ve thought of the best person in all the world to have for chaperone for our camping-party, if she will accept,” Adele exclaimed the next day as she skipped into the recreation hall where the girls were assembled, a shower having kept them indoors.
“Who is it?” Carol asked.
“It is Madge Petersen, a lovely young lady in Dorchester whom we once met at Little Bear Lake,” Adele replied.
“Oh, how I do hope that Miss Petersen will go with us,” Betty Burd exclaimed. “I heard Uncle George tell Mother once that Madge is his ideal of a gentlewoman.”