CHAPTER XX.
JANE PLAYS EAVESDROPPER Two hours later the Meadow-Brook Girls were startled to hear a voice directly over their heads call: "Girls, girls." "Who is it ?" asked Miss Elting cautiously.
"It's I.I'm up here, right where we heard George Baker talking this morning." "You nearly thcared me to death!" gasped Tommy.
"Speak more quietly, please," warned Harriet.

"Jane, I wish you would come up here.

No; I'm not going to take you far.

I want you within reach of the boat." "Do you see anything of the boys, Harriet ?" asked Miss Elting.
"No, but I hear them occasionally.

They are quite a distance ahead, traveling fast, and ought to be back long before dark." Jane lost no time in hurrying to the lower end of the creek in order to join her friend.