MAKING AN EXCITING DISCOVERY The Meadow-Brook girl did not dare to go on and enter the secret channel for fear of exposing the hiding place of the houseboat.

She was watching for some other nook into which to drive her boat.

In case her pursuers discovered her she determined to jump out and make her escape as best she could, leaving the boat on the beach.

Then a sudden idea occurred to her.
Harriet picked up a tin dipper that lay in the boat and that had been used for bailing.

This she hurled as far out in the lake as she could throw it.