to guide the boat by the auxiliary steering wheel.

The boys veered off.

"I wonder what they are up to?" asked Cora. "As soon as we can do
so, without being noticed, I think we will follow them. There must
have been something important on, when Jack did not wait to take me
out."

"Oh, don't let us go farther out on the lake," begged Belle. "I am
nervous yet."

"Then suppose we take you in? Nettie is at the camp, and then Bess
and I can go out to the island. There was really nothing the matter
with the boat, the mistake was all due to our own nervousness."

"Well, I would feel better not to sail any farther," admitted the,
pretty blond Belle, as she tossed back some of her breeze stray
curls. "I am subject to sickness on the water, anyhow."

"On still water?" asked Bess archly. "Well, we will take you in,
Twiny. And we will then go out. I want to redeem myself."

"Good for you, Bess," said Cora. "There is nothing like courage,
unless it be gasoline," and after starting the engine, she turned
the boat toward the shore. "There are the boys heading for the
other island!" she exclaimed a moment later.

"They are trying to fool us. I wonder why?" asked Bess. "See,
Belle. There are Nettie and Mary an shore--two of the best maids on