“Unlock the trunks and make sure,” suggested Alice. “If they have taken my best dress I——”
“You won’t go over to the dance at the Point to-morrow night; will you?” asked Jack.
“Indeed, I’ll not. But don’t suggest such a thing!”
The girls crowded into the tent, and a hurried search disclosed that, so far as they could tell, nothing was missing.
“Though they may have taken all our things to eat,” said Marie. “If they have, we’ll have to depend on you boys.”
“Huh! We’re cleaned out,” exclaimed Phil. “We came to get enough of your stuff for supper.”
“You poor boys!” murmured Mabel.
“This is the first they’ve thought of us,” declared Blake. “They’re so anxious about their own stuff that they didn’t care what had happened to ours.”
“Oh, we did so!” declared Alice. “Only you frightened us, meeting us the way you did.”
“Tell us all about it,” urged Natalie.