We haven't made any plans."
"Then suppose we tow you over in front of our camp? We'll be handy,
then, in case you need us again."
Harriet shook her head.
"I don't think that would be best. You see, we wish to go it alone. We
don't wish to have to depend upon any one."
"You don't have to do so. You are able to take care of yourselves. I'd
back the Meadow-Brook Girls against the world," declared George,
confidently, which aroused a laugh from the other occupants of the boat.
"We helped you this morning, did we not?"
"Indeed, you did."
"But they would have gotten out of the scrape without us," nodded Billy.
"Surely we would," chuckled Crazy Jane. "We always do get out of our
scrapes, somehow. But we thank you just the same."
"Indeed, we do," agreed Harriet earnestly. "I was about to say, when you
asked me if there were any place we wished to go, that we do wish to go
over to the other side of the lake some day soon, and--"
"Any time," interrupted Billy. "I'll take you over to-day, if you say
the word.
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