“Oh! You mean that for a joke, do you? Well, I don’t understand jokes any more than I do the weather. No, you needn’t pay me for the rudder. ’Tain’t nothing.”
The trio had a good deal to talk about when they got home, but Darry and Burd came in at dinner with the news that the Marigold was all ready for sea and that they would get under way right after breakfast the next morning.
Dr. Stanley and his daughter and Jessie and Amy were to be the boys’ guests on this trip, and the idea was to go along the coast as far as Boston and return. Mrs. Norwood had become used by this time to the boys going back and forth in the yacht and after her own voyage down to the island had forgotten her fears for the young folks.
“I am sure Darry will not expose the girls to danger,” she said to her husband. “But I am glad Dr. Stanley is going with them. He has such good sense.”
Henrietta wanted to go along. She did not see why she could not go on the yacht if “Miss Jessie and Miss Amy” were going. She might have whined a bit about it, if it had not been that she was reminded of the Radio Man.
“You want to look out,” Amy advised her. “You know the Radio Man is watching you and like enough he’ll tell everybody just how bad you are.”
“Gee!” sighed Henrietta. “It’s awful to be responsible for owning an island, ain’t it?”
The girls were eager to be off in the morning, and they scurried around and packed their overnight bags and discussed what they should wear for two hours before breakfast. Burd was not to be hurried at his morning meal.
“No knowing what we may get aboard ship,” he grumbled. “If it comes up rough there may be no chance at all to eat properly.”
“Now, Burd Alling!” exclaimed Amy. “How can you?”