The Campfire Girls on Station Island; Or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht
-chairs and watched the parti-colored electric lights that wreathed the shore-front. Jessie was careful to keep Henriet
ucked her into a berth. The Roselawn girls' mothers were much amused by this. Their daught
reed, with an answering smile. "Amy, espe
le she is asleep," Jessie said to he
chuckled Amy. "We forgot to a
until the first breakfast call in the morning. Through the port-light Jessie and Amy saw
over the headland, but the widest bathing beach was just below it. Next were the premises of the Hackle Island Gold Club, with its pastures,
on which those summer houses beyond the golf course sta
st. The yacht was headed in toward the dock near the bungalows, some
the island. The sending and receiving station of the commercial wireless company was at the li
to help, and a decrepit express wagon belonging to a "native" aided in the transportation of the good
the moment she learned which dwelling
your house in the en
the blunt query. "How
s the house for the summer. She h
the little girl. "If this island is going to be mine some
. In fact, she began to feel and express doubts about the attempt that was be
ty soon somebody else will get it instead,"
e that should be so. You know Belle Ringold's fathe
at. She is getting hard to manage as it is. Henrietta! W
ome of my island," declared the ch
into trouble," Jess
can't watch her every minute we are here. She
es to do the most unexpe
bungalow comfortable that Jessie did not think for a while about Henrietta. Besides,
st of all to plant in the sands some distance from the house an old mast that Mr
verybody began to wonder about Henrietta. Where was she? It was r
s my fault. I should not have let
" admitted her chum, with some gravity. "And this i
ble if she stayed on Hackle Isla
ouldn't have got off
onviction. "Don't tell Momsy. She will worry. She
eye if you managed to keep it on Henrietta," gig
ld. Station, or Hackle, Island at this end was mostly sand dunes or open flats. A little sparse grass grew in bunches, and there we
first attracted Henrietta at this end of the island. She did not believe that she would go far from the bunga
ything on both sea and shore looked gray and misty. The seabirds swept ove
ed Jessie Norwood very much whenever Henrietta got into mischief or into dange
ild was an appealing little creature, though she had had little chance in the world thus far to develop her better and
and Mrs. Foley if anything happen