"Blindfold me?" cried Ralph, amazed. "What for?"
"You must not see where we go now."
"But I gave you my word!" cried Ralph. "I promised I'd say nothing of where I had been or of what I had seen."
"I know," she said, "you will keep your promise. But you must not come back yourself."
Ralph stared at her as if she were a witch. Thus to hit upon his secret intention, scarcely confessed to himself!
After a while she said: "Will you promise never to come back?"
"No!" cried Ralph, very red in the face. "I am a free agent!"
"Then I got to tie your eyes," she said.
"I won't submit to it!" cried Ralph hotly.
She shrugged and turned away. She gave an order to the sulky Charley, and between them they unloaded the dugout. Though it was scarcely four in the afternoon, the three little tents were set up in a row on top of the bank, and every preparation made for spending the night.