At that his sister went off into uncontrollable laughter.
“To think!” she cried. “And Belle and Sally are going to be all summer on Station Island!”
“That settles it,” announced Darry. “Burd and I will spend our time aboard the Marigold. How about it, Burd?”
“Surest thing you know. At least we can escape those two on the yacht.”
And this amused Amy immensely, too. For was not Belle desirous of chartering the Marigold?
CHAPTER VIII—ABOARD THE “MARIGOLD”
Before she was ready to go to Station Island Jessie Norwood had a few purchases to make that had nothing to do with little Henrietta Haney. She had decided to disconnect her radio set and send the instrument down with the rest of the baggage. In addition, she was determined to take Monty Shannon’s advice and buy the additional parts which made the Dogtown boy’s set so much more successful than her own.
“We’ll buy wire for the antenna, of course,” Jessie said to Amy. “Let our old aerial stand till we return. All we shall have to do will be to hook it up again when we set up the set in my room.”
So they bought the wire, the lightning switch, and the other small parts in New Melford and sent them all on the truck with the trunks to the dock where the Marigold waited. The next day the two families, the Norwoods and the Drews, as well as Burd Alling and little Henrietta, were whisked to the yacht club dock in several automobiles.
The girls had heard from Bertha over the telephone. And considering the state of mind and body that Mrs. Blair was in, the poor woman was probably very well content that Henrietta should be in Mrs. Norwood’s care for a while.