“Yes; ‘try to drag me along’ is good!” said Campbell. “If he does not select a time when I can get away there will be trouble.”

“How soon must you leave, Philip?” asked Cathalina.

“Tomorrow evening. If you have anything to send home, have it ready when I come up. Good-bye, everybody. We have had a wonderful time.”

With parting gestures and camp yells, the manly crew boarded their boats and took their departure.

CHAPTER XV
A SHORE DINNER

“What is this ‘shore dinner’, Marion, that I hear the girls talking about?”

“I don’t know, Betty; ask Frances.”

“O, Frances!”

“Whoo-hoo,—in a minute.” Frances presently came in from hanging her bathing suit on the line outside the klondike.

“What is it, Betty?”