"We only have five," Dorothy told her, "and if you are late--I must go
on. Cologne is going to meet us away out from camp."

"Oh I'll be back," promised Tavia, and then she was lost in the
throng.




CHAPTER VII

CAMP C.C.


"There is not another train out this evening," Cologne was telling
Dorothy. "Wasn't it perfectly dreadful for her to leave you!"

"I expected something like that to happen from the start," Dorothy
replied. "Tavia has a faculty for missing trains. I wonder what she
will do?"

"There is just a chance that she may be able to make the way train,
and switch off at the Junction, then, if she is lucky, she may flag
the shore train and get to this spot about midnight. But what would
she do then? Better stay out in civilization until daylight."

"I feel dreadfully, Rose-Mary, that she should give you so much
trouble. I sometimes think Tavia ought to be----"