The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake The Hermit of Fern Island

eft word with the doorkeeper that he could not get back in time to see his sister but would run up from

had any idea that this mig

ir way to the spring for fresh water. "First he watched you, then when Mabel Blake a

ot hypnotize Mab

k," add

he sister. "Jack is too level-heade

Paul," spoke Hazel. "Isn't it love

ter besides. I have often wondered what I should have done if I had not had such sple

thought of i

Look at t

be distinguished. She had evidently come from a boat that was l

imed Cora, "and she seems

man, her voice shakin

I'm drop

asked Cora kindly. "

oman, brushing the straggling hair fr

pened?" asked

They might find me, an

d you may come up to the camp," suggest

I'm too done up to hel

ass. Kate got on her feet again, and, following the girls, all ma

Cora. "This is what we call ou

ne with that. Here," and she slipped her hand in her dress, carefully taking

ri

he gem at which she was gazing

k me how I got it," said Kate, "th

" Cora replied, "but I never dreamed how I might re

pproaching. "If there ever was two bigger villains than Jim Peters and Tony whatever-his-other-name-is-if-he's-got one,

tly even a woman so used to hardsh

st?" ask

t Fern Island," almost whi

who had hitherto been silent

d it will go on I'm afraid

were looking for Hazel and Cora. The familia

I take Kate up the back way. I want to get her some of those

If I don't get a train or boat away from th

ng! Why shouldn't you go or co

o have some power and I want to get away fro

ng in my motor boat," replied Cora. "It has a

ee I'm not much used to the water, and row

u something for gettin

quite valuabl

thing you met me instead of Jim Peters the day you did go over. They'll be like tigers when they find I've got the ring. It was last night that gave me the chance. They had be

mething put in the boat for you," declared Cora. "But let me ask you, did you overhear anything about a girl named Miss Blake? I saw Jones leave a hall where she

she had better be careful that she doesn't join the

e. And that is why my brother went to see

," declared Kate. "But wait. I can't read mu

ed telegram blank. Upon it was made

nd at twenty-five we

EDI

"Who could have sent Jones

messages. He can copy any handwriting. I h

message. And Jack must have been somewhere around within hearing distance. Surely things were getting complicated and mysterious in the summer colony. But Cora had her ring back, and for the rest