"Roll up when you are ready," directed the guide.
Each girl, except Tommy, lay down on her blanket, and, tucking in one
edge, proceeded to roll herself up in it Indian-fashion, leaving only
her head and face exposed to the air. Tommy sat up, observing them
solemnly.
"You look like a lot of mummieth," she declared.
"And we feel like them, darlin'," answered Jane.
The guide now proceeded to wrap the free end of rope about each girl's
waist over the blanket, except in Tommy's case. She preferred to have
the rope about her waist before rolling up in her blanket, determining
in her own mind to slip the loop off after the others had gone to
sleep. Fortunately, however, Tommy Thompson's eyes grew heavy and she
dropped to sleep ahead of her companions. The guide lay down with his
blanket half folded over him without a single worry on his mind,
knowing that his charges could not get far away without a pulling on
the lines that would awaken him.
But when the pulling on the lines did come, Janus Grubb was not
prepared for it, and the camp of the Meadow-Brook Girls was thrown into
wild excitement by what followed.
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