“Where is everyone?” Ardeth asked in perplexity. “Surely not on a hike so early?”
Swimming suits hung on the clothes lines, attesting to the fact that the campers already had enjoyed an early morning plunge in Morning Glory Lake.
“Look!” Judy suddenly cried, pointing toward a cleared area some distance away at the edge of the forest. “Everyone is over there! Let’s see what’s doing.”
Hurrying over to the group, the girls could not at first discern what it was that had drawn the interest of the entire camp.
Gradually, however, they edged deeper into the assembly and saw that the other Scouts were taking turns peering into a large wooden box, covered with a wire screen.
“What in the world?” Virginia speculated.
Just then Beverly, Kathleen and Betty caught sight of their patrol mates in the crowd, and joined them. Judy asked the cause of the excitement.
“Oh, you girls have missed all the fun, being stuck down there at Calico Cottage,” Kathleen told her. “We’ve started a treasure box.”
“What is that?”
“Look in it and you’ll see!”