“Oh, I feel fine!” said Bessie. “The only trouble with me was that I was scared–just plain scared! If I’d known that everything was going to be all right, I could have turned and swam ashore after you started towing Gladys in. Is she all right? I’m more bothered about her than about myself.”
“I think she’s going to feel a lot better when she wakes up,” said Eleanor. “I think I’m enough of a doctor to be able to tell when there’s anything seriously wrong. But I’m not taking any chances–I’ve sent for a doctor.”
“How about the other boat? Did they get in all right?” asked Dolly, “I forgot all about them, I was so worked up about Bessie and Gladys.”
“They had a tough time, but they managed it,” said Margery Burton. “Here’s Miss Turner now. I suppose she’s worried about Gladys.”
Worried she certainly was, but Eleanor was able to reassure her, and soon the doctor, arriving from Green Cove, pronounced Gladys to be in no danger.
“She’ll have that headache when she wakes up,” he said; “but it will be a lot better, and by to-morrow morning it will be gone altogether. Don’t give her much to eat; some chicken broth ought to be enough. She’s evidently got a good constitution. If she had fractured her skull she wouldn’t have been conscious yet, nor for a good many days.”
But the accident had one unforeseen consequence, that was rather amusing than otherwise to Dolly, at first, at least. For, before the doctor was ready to go, the sound of an automobile engine was heard up on the bluff, and a minute later Billy Trenwith came racing down the path.
At the sight of Eleanor he paused, looking a little sheepish.
“I heard that Doctor Black was coming here–I was afraid something might have happened to you,” he stammered.
“Why, whatever made you think that?” said Eleanor, honestly puzzled. Then she turned, surprised again by a burst of hysterical laughter from Dolly, who, staring at Trenwith’s red face, was entirely unable to contain her mirth. Under Eleanor’s steady gaze she managed to control herself, but then she went off again helplessly as Doctor Black winked at her very deliberately.