On Monday, Aunt Flo-Flo and Mrs. Charlton came in the Orion to visit the Islanders.
“I thought it best to come over and take an inventory of my ready-made family,” laughed Aunt Flo-Flo.
“Oh, we’ll be good as saints if you’ll only take us on enough motor-trips to last a month!” exclaimed Elizabeth.
“Maybe the boys would like to sail over for a day’s trip, too,” suggested Aunt Edith, but the boys had disappeared from the porch. Fred had given them the high sign for a pow-wow to be held in his tee-pee immediately!
That evening the girls begged to be told what was the cause of the serious and animated pow-wow. Portentous looks were all the answer returned while Mrs. Remington remained in the room.
“Say, who wants to walk to the south end of the island and watch the tide come in in the moonlight?” asked Fred, when it was found that his mother expected to remain in the room.
Every one declared they wanted to see such a sight, and soon the room was vacated and quiet—Mrs. Remington being occupied with her written orders for Mose during her absence.
Once down upon the little beach, Fred announced that he and the others planned to do lots of things that his mother wanted done. Such as blasting out a big rock in the middle of Treasure Cove, raising a big new flag-pole, and making a pebble walk around the little log-cabin which was Mrs. Remington’s sanctuary when she was driven to retirement from the “madding crowd.”
“She will love that!” exclaimed Elizabeth.
“Oh we intend doing lots of other things, too,” bragged Billy.