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Th one patrol of his troop. He got there yesterday and the way I
happened to hear about it was that he was on his way over yesterday
morning--he got in ahead of the boys--to help us look for Dolly and
Bessie, when they were found." "Oh, that's fine! And shall we have that
field day?" "Later on, before we go home, yes. But he began teasing me
again yesterday, and I told him we'd have a water carnival any time he
wanted to bring his boys over. And he said they'd come Saturday." "We'll
have to get ready and show them what we can do, then," said Margery
Burton, with determination in her voice. "My brother's a Boy Scout, and
I know just what they're like; they think we're just the same as all the
other girls they know. I tell you what would be fun; to get up a
baseball team." "Maybe we'll try that later," said Eleanor. "But right
now we want to be ready for Saturday. So I'll teach you everything I
can. And I'm quite sure we can beat them in a life-saving drill; their
three best against our three. We'd have you, Margery, and Bessie, and
Dolly Ransom." So it was agreed, and they all began to practice. "I wish
I could do something," said Zara, wistfully. "But I don't believe I
could learn to swim before Saturday." "You could learn to keep yourself
afloat," said Margery. "But that wouldn't be much good, of course. You'd
rather not go in at all, I suppose, unless you could really swim." "I
know what I could do, though," said Zara, suddenly, after she had
watched Bessie go through the life saving drill. But she would not
confide her idea to anyone but Miss Mercer, who looked more than
doubtful when she heard it. "I don't know, Zara," she said, "I'll see.
It seems a little risky. But I'll think it over. It would be splendid,
but, well, we'll see." Speed swimming, pure racing, was barred when
Saturday came. But with Scoutmaster Hastings and Miss Mercer as
referees, and three summer visitors from the Loon Pond Hotel, who had no
prejudice in favor of either side as judges, several contest