"Oh, but isn't it a strange coincidence?" remarked Alice.
"It certainly is. But perhaps the girls have been found by this time."
"Our destination will be Lake Kissimmee," proceeded Mr. Pertell. "We will take some pictures on the lake, some on the Kissimmee River, that connects the lake of that name with Lake Okeechobee, and then we'll go a little way into the wilds, on various streams."
Ruth and Alice looked at each other apprehensively.
CHAPTER XII
A WARNING
"Beg pardon," said Claude Towne, during a pause in which Mr. Pertell was consulting some notes he had jotted down, in order to make matters more clear to his players. "Beg pardon, my dear sir, but are we going to a very wild part of this country?"
"Why, yes—rather so," was the not very reassuring answer. "You probably won't be able to get a room and bath at the hotel where we stop."
"Oh, another one of those backwoods places," murmured Miss Pennington. "How horrid!"