Madge Morton's Victory
ke away into smooth curves. Down a long streak of moonlight four dark objects floated above the surface of
kept in advance
Remember, we promised Jenny Ann. My, but isn't this wa
oonlight shone full on a happy face. Th
ed back, "are you all right?
ietly until their two fri
er hand out. "May I float along with you a little, Madge?" she asked. "I am tired. How wide and
danger!" sc
saw first the sails of a small yacht making across the bay with
enough away for them not to see us. It will be rather good fun if the
om the deck of the yacht. "I saw half a dozen women going aboard her this afternoon laden with boxes and tru
e 'Noah's Ark' is a houseboat. It looked very tiny fo
these new persons the cold shoulder. Nobody knows who they are, nor where they come from. It is bad enough to have to
d Eleanor. "What a pe
inctly audible over the water. The boat had
k when there's a chance. I have that rubber ball that Phil and I brought out to play with in the water. Watch me throw it on their yacht. They'll think it's a bomb, or a
d and was swimming along almost completely under the water. She swam in the d
ball came out of nowhere and landed in the center of the group of three young people on
girls not to laugh aloud as naugh
"Oh, dear, what was that?" one girl asked faint
line voice. "Are you really hurt, Mabel? Yo
chair. She was white with
aned. "It may explode any
in Mabel's lap, was surely a round, globular-shaped object that had either dropped from the sky or had be
took hold of Madge's ball. Then she laughed aloud. O
mming. I suppose they threw the ball on board just to frighten us. They certainly were successful." She hurled Madge's ball back over the water, but Roy Dennis's small yacht had gone some di
board the "Merry Maid." "It was a very silly trick that I played. I should hate to
the water for half an hour. That's too long for a first swim. Poor Tania is fast asleep. The child is utterly worn out with so much excitement. Think of never having been out of a crowded city in her life, and then see
the chocolate, "it was my fault we were late. The bad things are always my fault. But we are going to have a perfec
to happen to us this holiday?" pondered
oing to row up the bay in the morning to explore the shore, we shall have to get up early to put the 'Merr
one with her. They did not know how soon they would be able to come on to Cape May; but within a very few days Philip Holt, the goody-goody young m
. But Tania, who was the only one of the party that knew the young man well, burst une