d?"

"She has promised to tell me first," said Nat, again showing his good
sense in saving Tavia just then. "And we are not to hear one word
until we get back to camp."

"Here come Ned, and Jack, and Doctor Ashton," interrupted Ralph. "Who
is sick?"

"A friend of Tavia's, with whom she was stopping," said the wily Nat.
"That was why she could not get word to us. Her friend was very sick,
and her folks were all away."

Tavia looked her gratitude into Nat's manly face. The boys and the
doctor had reached the tent.

"Wait here," ordered the doctor as he stepped within.

And it was Dorothy Dale who took up her place by the physician's side,
as he did all that he could to unfold the case of Mary Harriwell.

"And how ever did you find this camp, one of the best for miles
around?" asked Nat of Tavia, as they awaited the doctor's verdict.

"We fell into it. Whose is it?"

"Why the Babbitts left in a hurry last week--some one ill. They have
not sent down for their things yet."

"Lucky for us," remarked Tavia. Then they heard the doctor moving
about in the tent, and lowered their voices.

CHAPTER XXVIII

GOOD NEWS

"Oh, such good news!" exclaimed Dorothy, emerging from the tent. "It
is worth all our trouble."

"What!" asked a chorus.

"She will be better! She has recovered her reason. The doctor says
some shock----"

"Oh, but it was an awful shock," interrupted Tavia. "I believe if I
had any reason it would have destroyed mine."

"Always knew there was a method in your madness, Tavia," said Nat.
"Now, that's something like!"

"We are going to take her to camp to-night," went on Dorothy, too
serious to take a joke. "Doctor Ashton says nothing could be better
for her."

"There are camps, and camps," persisted Nat.

Ned was talking to the doctor. "We can carry her on the cot, just as
well as not," insisted Nat. "There are four of us."

"And put her in the boat--well, I think that will be all right,"
answered the doctor. "The present trouble is more of a morbid fear
than anything else," and he put his stethoscope in its case. "As soon
as she feels the fresh air, and realizes that she is out of all harm's
way, I think she will----"

"Sit up and take notice," interrupted Nat, for he could not help
making light of the troubles with which he felt the girls were too
heavily burdened.

"Exactly that," agreed the doctor. "Miss Harriwell could not have
fallen into better hands. I will, however, see he