CONTENTS

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I[On Hood’s Hill]3
II[The Race with Hammond]15
III[Graduation and Good News]29
IV[Camp Torohadik]46
V[A Batch of Doughnuts]63
VI[Exploration]76
VII[“W. N.” Pays a Visit]95
VIII[A Guest at Camp]108
IX[The Licensed Poet]123
X[Adventures with a Launch]138
XI[The Launch is Christened]151
XII[Chub Scents a Mystery]169
XIII[Billy Entertains]180
XIV[Voices in the Night]201
XV[The Floating Artist]213
XVI[A Meeting of Friends]233
XVII[Harry Sits for Her Picture]244
XVIII[The Storm]257
XIX[The Rescue]270
XX[Aboard the Jolly Roger]285
XXI[“Until To-morrow”]297

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Chub, who had been sent to the larder, interrupted them]Frontispiece
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[Three boys lay at their ease in the shade of the white birches]7
[“Did we win the race?”]25
[In the evening there was a grand ball]41
[“What is the name of the camp?”]57
[Chub and Roy paddled her across the darkening water]73
[They followed the edge of the water]89
[At their feet lay the still smoldering remains of a small fire]111
[“I have the honor to introduce to your attention the world-famed Signor Billinuni”]125
[“When is a fly-wheel not a fly-wheel?”]145
[“What did he tell us he gave for that boat?”]155
[“Did it just come natural for you to make poetry?”]173
[Mr. Noon entertains the three boys]195
[“A Daniel come to judgment!”]219
[Harry]229
[Chub turned in time to see Billy press a finger swiftly against his lips]237
[Harry sitting for her portrait]249
[“It’s a boat bottom-up with a man clinging to it!”]267
[And this time she was genuinely surprised]289
[“Good-by”]301

HARRY’S ISLAND

[CHAPTER I]
ON HOOD’S HILL

[Three boys lay at their ease in the shade of the white birches] which crown the top of Hood’s Hill, that modest elevation on Fox Island at the upper end of Outer Beach which, with the exception of Mount Emery, is the highest point on the island. From this proud vantage, some twelve feet above the surface of the river, the view was unobstructed for two miles up and down the Hudson. At the foot of the little slope, where coarse grass sprouted from the loose sand, Outer Beach began, shelving abruptly to the lapping waves and shimmering with heat waves; for in the neighborhood of Ferry Hill and Coleville, toward the end of the month of June, the sun can be very ardent when it tries; and to-day it was evidently resolved to be as fervent as it could, for, although it still lacked a few minutes of eleven, the heat was intense even out here on the island.