o beat a retreat to
the float. Dolly was strangely silent for the rest of the day.
Bessie, watching her anxiously, could tell that Dolly had some trick in
her mind, but, try as she would, she could not find out what her plan
was.

"No, I won't tell you, Bessie," said Dolly, when her chum finally asked
her point-blank what she meant to do. "You're not a sneak, and I'm not
afraid of your telling on me, but you'll be happier if you don't know."

Bessie felt that whatever Dolly might try to do to the other girls
would serve them right, but she was worried about her chum. And when
Dolly slipped off by herself after dinner, Bessie determined that she
would not let her chum run any risks alone, even if she was not a
sharer of Dolly's secret.

It was not a hard matter to trace Dolly, even though Bessie let her
have a good start before she followed. She knew that any plan Dolly
had must involve going to the other camp, and she hid herself, moving
carefully so as to avoid detection, in a place that commanded the
approach. And in a very abort time she heard Dolly coming; and saw
that she was carrying a large basket with the utmost care.

CHAPTER XIV

THE SPIRIT OF WO-HE-LO

Bessie stole along silently behind Dolly. She wanted very much to say
something, but she was afraid of what might happen if she let Dolly
know that she was spying on her. And she had made up her mind, anyhow,
that she would do more harm than good by interfering at this time.

Whatever it was she was doing might be wrong, but, after all, she had a
good deal of provocation, and she had been far more patient already
than anyone who knew her would have expected her to be.

"I bet they're just trying to work her up to trying to get even,"
Bessie reflected to herself. "Gladys Cooper knows her, so she must
know what a temper Dolly has, and she must be surprised to think that
she hasn't managed to arouse her yet."

That thought made Bessie gladder than ever that she had decided to
follow Dolly. While she was not in the plot herself, she meant to be
in it if Dolly got into trouble, or if, as Bessie half feared, it
turned out that her chum was walking into a trap. Moreover, she was
entirely ready to take her share of the blame, if there was to be any
blame, and to let others believe that she had shared Dolly's secret
from the first and had deliberately taken part in the plot.

Dolly's movements were puzzling. Bessie had expected her to go to