six o'clock, and I told them that I would blow the horn at six, as
usual. If they are too far away to hear it, they will know the time
by the sun.'

'Well,' said Bell, anxiously, 'I hope it is all right. Papa is so
strict that he won't be late himself. Did all the boys go with him,
mamma?'

'Yes, all but Philip.'

'Oh, then Dicky must be with them,' said Margery, consolingly.
'Geoffrey always takes him wherever he can.'

So the girls went into the tent to begin their dinner toilet, which
consisted in carefully brushing burrs and dust from their pretty
dresses, and donning fresh collars and stockings, with low ties of
russet leather, which Polly declared belonged only to the stage
conception of a camping costume; then, with smoothly brushed hair and
bright flower-knots at collar and belt, they looked charming enough
to grace any drawing-room in the land.

The horn was blown again at six o'clock, Aunt Truth standing at the
entrance of the path which led up the canyon, shading her anxious
eyes from the light of the setting sun. -

'Here they come!' she cried, joyously, as the welcome party appeared
in sight, guns over shoulder, full game-bags, and Jack and Geoff with
a few rabbits and quail hanging over their arms.

The girls rushed out of the tent. Bell took in the whole group with