smilingly. "Now let's get supper. We have a lot to do, and even more to
discuss."

"Had we not better work in closer to shore?" questioned the guardian,
regarding the wooded cove critically.

"No, I think not. I have my reasons for wanting to be away from the
shore," answered Harriet.

It would have perhaps been better had they chosen some other location
for their anchorage, for the night in the cove was to be a trying one
for the Meadow-Brook Girls and another of those mysterious happenings
that had so disturbed them was to overtake them at the very beginning of
the cruise of the "Red Rover."




CHAPTER IV

A SUDDEN AWAKENING


"There! I knew we had forgotten something."

"What have we forgotten, Jane?"

"An ice box, Miss Elting. How are we to keep our food without an ice
box?"