g display at the counter of summer toilet
articles consumed still more time, until finally, realization that it
was really lunch time, the fire bell announcing it, brought them all up
sharply.

"Wish we had our slippers and pumps back," said Grace. "These emergency
sneaks certainly look the part. When did Kitty say we were to raid
Jake's?"

"No definite time was set, as they say about delayed scout meetings,"
replied Margaret, "but I could use my pretty buckled pumps this very
afternoon."

"Wait a minute," Helen called to a news boy. "We want a paper!" They
always seemed to want something when in town.

"Look! Look!" exclaimed Margaret, securing the sheet while some one else
paid the boy. "We are all over the front page. Louise Hart, we will have
to appoint a body guard for you, or the people will kidnap you. Just
read this!"

"Oh, just listen," insisted Cleo. "It says the Sea Crest Life Savers are
going to ask the naval authorities to acknowledge the brave act----"

But Louise had fallen back in a mock faint--The glory of the aftermath
was getting a bit too thick for comfort.

CHAPTER XX

A REVELATION

"ANYWHERE you like, and the bottom, not the sky, is the limit." It was
Neal, replying to the girls' request for a trip to the Point in the
Treddie.

The party included Grace, Louise, Julia, Helen, Cleo, Isabel, Elizabeth
and Corinne, the last named having run up from the Windward, to spend a
few days with her school companions at Sea Crest.

"A regular excursion," said Elizabeth. "We should have brought eats."

"We may find them," suggested Neal, turning over his engine, whereat the
Treddie chugged off.

"This may look like an excursion, girls," said Cleo, "but it feels like
an expedition. I'm quivering with excitement."

"And I'm all goose flesh with apprehension," followed Louise. "How do we
know what we are going to run into on Looney Land?"

"We don't. There would be no fun in it if we did," Grace told her. "I've
come armed. If bears or lions howl at me they'll get ammonia from my
tree," she rhymed, exhibiting Benny's water pistol.

"Spoof," Corinne exclaimed; "I thought we had wild terrors up at
Windward, but we haven't come across bears nor injuns. Wish I had
brought my illegal sling shot that I only use in self defense."

"Treddie can tread," remarked Isabel. "Who was it walked on the water?"

"Ancient or modern?" flipped Louise. "I'm busy thinking of walking on
air just now."

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