"There was," allowed Rand, "but it is a good deal later now."
"I think we had better go on," said Jack laughingly. "There is a good place I can see. That strip of beach over there is a natural landing place."
"And a green spot back of it that would make a dandy place for a camp," added Pepper.
"I wish we could come up here and camp," said Jack. "Wouldn't it be fine?"
"I s-s-say!" cried Pepper.
"Well, s-say it," said Donald.
"Let's organize a patrol and come up here and camp out."
"You hit the bullseye that time, Pepper," cried Jack enthusiastically.
"'Twould no be a bad idea," admitted Don.
"Ah done reckon dat am a fac', for shuah," drawled Rand in the negro dialect, of which he was master.