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Here they ate and rested till the sun began to pass its e That night, after a day wherein they hadthe mussel-beds, they slept on piles of sun-dried kelp which they heaped into so brow of low cliffs on a rocky point And dawn found the, hopes high, in perfect comradeship and faith

Tohatthey reached thelike half athis up a mile or so they reached a narrow point; but even here, burdened as they were, swi to do," said Stern, "will be to wait till the tide backs up and gives us quiet water, thenor two"--a plan they put into effect with good success Mid-afternoon, and they were on their way again, east-bound

"Was that the Connecticut?" asked Beatrice "Car do you think we've passed that already?"

"More likely to be the Thaure that what used be New London is less than five ht be soh to bother with We mustn't be diverted from the main issue, Boston! Forward,far out to sea, which he declared was none other than Watch Hill Point, on the Rhode Island boundary And on the afternoon of the following day they reached as indisputably Point Judith and Narragansett Bay

Here they were forced to turn northward; and when ca their due allowance of claathered their breadfruit and e of the woods, they held conclave about their future course

The bay was, indeed, a factor neither Stern nor she had reckoned on To follow its detours all the way around would add seventy to a hundred ed the shore or ht cuts across some of the wooded promontories

"And from Providence, at the head of the bay, to Boston, is only fortythe fire contemplatively

"But if we miss our way?"

"How can we, if we follow the reuide us all the way"

"I know; but the forest is so thick!"