“They are to be married when Archie finishes college,” she said.
“Oh, I’m glad,” cried Polly, and all the girls turned in their saddles, and sent out a cheer back to the two in the field. “They’ll wonder what that’s for, but we know,” she added, merrily.
Sunday they did not break camp at all, but stayed at their first stopping place, Camp Expectancy, on the banks of the big lake. Mr. Murray read service for them, and the girls enjoyed singing the old familiar canticles out there in the green world. Monday night, just at moonrise, the tired travelers turned down the road that led past old Topnotch, and were glad enough to see the light in the cabin window, and hear the dogs barking.
Sally Lost Moon stood in the doorway holding up a lamp, and smiling broadly at them, and Archie and Neil took the ponies, while Don helped unload.
“They’ve started digging over in the gulch,” Don found a chance to tell Peggie. “Dr. Smith lives in Zed’s old shack now, and they say more workmen are coming, and they’ll be there all summer.”
“Oh, Don, just after our old skeleton,” exclaimed Peggie. “Do you remember how we laughed when we found it, and wondered what sort of a bear had bones like that?”
“It would be there yet if Polly hadn’t known better.”
“I know it,” Peggie agreed. “The other girls say she’s the best starter of things they ever saw. They say if I do go back east with them, I am to belong to their outing club too. Polly’s the president. Won’t that be fun?”
Don was very busy with the girth strap on Jinks, and she could not see his face, but his voice sounded muffled and unwilling.
“It won’t be fun for us. Won’t you miss us, Peg?”