“Silly,” she said. “If you want to get away from the lake——”
“How about the fish-balls?” Pee-wee piped up.
“If you want to get away from the lake,” she said, “all you have to do is to pull the boat up on shore and get the water out of it. As you stand looking out on the lake the outlet is up there to the north. It’s to your left. All you have to do is to row along the shore to your left till you reach the outlet and then row through the outlet till you see a path that leads out of it to your left. That goes to Shade Valley. How many times have you been marching around this lake for goodness’ sake?”
Warde said, “We wouldn’t even have reached the shore if it hadn’t been for our dog who deserted us and went home to dinner.”
“Well, he’s the only one of the party who has any sense,” Marjorie Eaton said. Then they both began laughing.
“It’s good you came down to the shore,” the other girl said, “because now you see you can use the boat and get somewhere without actually breaking your rule.”
“We just have to kind of bend it a little,” I said.
“I never knew anything so stupid in my life as boys,” Stella Wingate said.
“Especially boys who have been around so much,” Brent said.
I said, “Girls, you have saved us from being a merry-go-round; you have shown us a way out. The outlet lets us out the same as it let Pee-wee in. He was in that very outlet, and he never knew its possibilities.