"What is that?" asked both Ethels in chorus.
"Across the lake is a camp that both the Boys' and Girls' Clubs use in turn. There's a great rush to go so we'd better be on the list early."
"How long do we stay?"
"Just one night and plenty of grown people go, too, so the mothers never object. It's the grandest thing."
"I've never slept in a tent," said Ethel Blue, "and I'd love to do it because my father has to do it so much. I think he'd like to have me."
But when they told Mrs. Morton of the plan she was not quite so eager as the girls would have liked to have her.
"How do you go there?" she asked.
"In a motor boat, Dorothy says."
"We shall be on the water a good deal this summer," said Mrs. Morton after thinking a minute, "and you girls can't learn to swim too quickly. I think I will say that you may go to the camp when you can both swim at least twenty strokes."
"If my bathing dress is all ready I'll begin to-morrow, Aunt Marion."