"So do I," added Sue. "I'm going to make a little bungalow there for my dolls."
"And I'm going to make one to camp in," declared her brother.
They started off right after breakfast, and as Bunny and Sue played around on the deck they could see their father and Captain Ross talking together and looking up at the sky every now and then.
"We'll keep near shore," they heard the captain say. "Then if the storm breaks we can tie up."
But, though the clouds scudded across the sky all day, the storm did not break. It was black and lowering when evening came, but, after another look all around, Bunny heard the captain say to their father and mother:
"We may as well keep on. It may blow over, and if we tie up over night it will take us just so much longer to get there. I'd better keep on, don't you think?"
"Yes," said Mr. Brown, "keep on."
So the Fairy kept on through the waters of the bay. Bunny and Sue, after being allowed out on deck to watch the distant twinkling lights of other vessels, were put to bed in their bunks, and Mrs. Brown fastened some broad canvas straps up in front of their berths.
"What are they for?" asked Sue, as she kissed her mother good night.
"So you won't fall out if the boat rolls and rocks too much in the storm," was the answer.