"All night?" exclaimed Edith. "Whoever has to sit up and tend it all night? I'd certainly hate that job."
"Oh, no one has to tend the fire all night. A number of us are chosen and each one has to keep watch an hour at a time," explained Cousin Edna.
"It must be hard to sit up a whole hour; I'm sure I'd go off to sleep," said Letty.
"You can doze if you like, but you have to keep one eye on the fire. You see, it gets very chilly on the beach before morning and the fire helps a lot. Besides, it keeps away the mosquitoes."
What a delicious beach supper they had and what a delightful evening they passed afterwards, telling stories, etc.
When nine o'clock came each girl put on her sweater and rolled herself in her blanket.
"Here's where I sleep," said Letty, throwing herself down on the beach and piling sand into a heap for a pillow.
"Good idea," said Edith, "let's all make pillows out of sand."
The night on the beach proved to be a delightful one, to all but one of the girls. She woke up next morning with a stiff neck from sleeping in a cramped position, and could not go in bathing.
Thanks, however, to Mary Lee's training under Dr. Payson, and her Red Cross first aid lessons, she knew just how to massage the girl's neck and thus relieved the pain in a short time.