e," called Harriet. "She is all right now. She has her
bearings now. Let us see if she has forgotten how to swim." Harriet
threw Margery off. The latter splashed and floundered in the cold
water, then all at once struck off for the shore. She reached it and
scrambled to the bank, up which she staggered and sank whimpering to
the earth.

Jane and Harriet swam shoreward. Jane was laughing almost
hysterically. Though she felt chilled and exhausted, Harriet's eyes
twinkled. The two struggled to the bank, there to sit down laughing.

"Are you safe?" shouted Miss Elting.

"Hoo-e-e-e!" answered the two girls.

"Are you all right, Tommy?" Harriet next called across the pond.

"Yeth, but I'm _almotht_ wet and cold. My clothes are thoaked, and
there are ithicleth hanging from my eyebrowth. Thomebody better thave
me?"

"Come over here," proposed Harriet, teasingly, "and we will."

"I can't," Tommy replied, with a shake of her head. "Too many
thraight, high rockth in the way."

"Swim across, darlin'," urged Jane.

"Can't do that either, the water ith too cold."

"Then you'll have to stay where you are," laughed Jane. "If you get
hungry, come over and I'll give you a biscuit to take back there with
you."

"Girls, I feel so relieved," cried Miss Elting, running down to join
them. "But why did you do such a foolish thing?"

"We came after Tommy," replied Miss McCarthy. "If that were foolish,
we apologize."

"Tommy," ordered Miss Elting, "come here!"

"I can't," complained the little one.

"We'll have to go after her," sighed Harriet, "or the little goose will
stay there. Miss Elting, how would you like to take a nice, cool
morning swim?"

"No, thank you," replied the guardian, with a little shiver. "Here is
Janus. You see that my girls are all valiant, Mr. Grubb."

There was a note of pride in the guardian's voice.

"Well, I swum!" was the guide's greeting. "Ye did do it!"

"Yes, sir; and I shouldn't mind doing it again. Oh, it was such sport,
Miss Elting. Please, may we go up and have another slide?" begged
Harriet.

"Oh, goodness, yes. Please let us," urged Jane.

"By no means. I am amazed that you should ask such a thing. I forbid
it. Please get Tommy, if you are going to. She will stay there as
long as we will wait here. I really don't know what I am going to do
with Tommy."

"I wish you would do something, Miss Elting. She surely will be the
death of me. Think of me, wit