Then the dishes were speedily washed and put away.

The Tramp Club's camp showed no activity until after eight o'clock, when the smoke from their cook fire was observed curling up through the foliage on the shore of the Island of Delight.

A long-drawn "Hoo-oo-oo" from the camp told the girls that they had been observed by some of the boys.
Before nine o'clock the launch put out and sailed rapidly over to the "Red Rover." "We didn't come to call.

We just ran over to see what time you wished to go for a sail ?" asked Billy Gordon.
"Come right on board, boys.

We finished our work shortly after daylight this morning.