"Why, that's where those two girls were from--the ones who were lost, you
know!"

"Hush! Yes. You know we agreed to say nothing about it, for fear of
causing undue alarm. Miss Pennington and Miss Dixon might refuse to go,
you know," she went on in a low voice, "and that would make trouble for
Mr. Pertell."

"Oh, but isn't it a strange coincidence?" remarked Alice.

"It certainly is. But perhaps the girls have been found by this time."

"Our destination will be Lake Kissimmee," proceeded Mr. Pertell. "We will
take some pictures on the lake, some on the Kissimmee River, that
connects the lake of that name with Lake Okeechobee, and then we'll go a
little way into the wilds, on various streams."

Ruth and Alice looked at each other apprehensively.




CHAPTER XII

A WARNING


"Beg pardon," said Claude Towne, during a pause in which Mr. Pertell was
consulting some notes he had jotted down, in order to make matters more
clear to his players. "Beg pardon, my dear sir, but are we going to a