“Oh, they won’t mind us stayin’ and we’ll do just everything you say, Miss Remington!” quickly promised Dudley.
“You just bet we will, an’ my mother and sister are real glad I can visit Billy all summer on such a dandy island,” assured Paul.
“Well then, the Sagamore of Sunset Isle has his work all cut out for him this summer,” laughed Mrs. Remington, nodding at Fred, who was seventeen and the oldest of all the children.
“Looks like some programme, too!” commented Fred.
“By the time the season is over, Fred will have had such fine training that he will have to go to Plattsburg for a rest. He will be able to pass high in the physical requirements, all right,” added Mr. Remington, who had joined the group in time to hear the latter part of the conversation.
As Mr. Remington finished speaking the bell rang for luncheon and a crowd of hungry islanders trooped in to eat every crumb of Mose’s delicious meal. Then, feeling like a new man once more, Fred announced his intention of sailing over to Isola Bella to bring his aunt and little cousins, Miriam and Betty, to Sunset Island to see the deep-sea curiosity.
In an hour’s time, therefore, Fred landed his passengers at the float stage, and hurried them over to the place where lay the giant sunfish.
“Oh, I wish Papa could see it!” cried Miriam Farwell, the eldest child of Aunt Miriam and Uncle Bill.
The energetic islanders finally wearied of admiring the mola and turned their attention to other things.
“I wish Uncle Bill would offer a prize for the biggest fish caught this summer—you know he did that last year,” said Billy, the financier of the family.