"You needn't
wait breakfast for me; I'll have something to eat before leaving. But
do be careful. I don't want to have the little one falling down the
rocks and landing on my head when I get there. Better turn in as soon
as possible, young ladies. We have a mighty hard trail ahead of us in
the morning, and some more slippery granite to climb. Another thing,
you'd better put another belt on Miss Thompson. You'll find some
leather and a buckle in my kit. There's sewing material there also."
"How far shall we have to climb?" asked Hazel.
"'Bout a thousand feet, as a bird flies," Janus answered, with a
careless gesture.
"Ob, thave me!" wailed Tommy desperately. "I can't thtand any more."
"Why, Tommy, we've hardly begun yet," Harriet retorted smilingly.
"Maybe _you_ haven't, but thome of uth have about finithed," asserted
the little, lisping girl.
"For once, Tommy and I agree," groaned Margery.
Not long after the girls turned in for the second time that night.
Daybreak would soon send its gray light into their camp on Sokoki Leap.
But the day ahead of them was not fated to be, in all respects, a time
of calm.
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