," said Polly severely. "I
believe you hid it!" she exclaimed suddenly.

"If you think so, look for it," said Molly. And Polly immediately set
to work to search each one of the party, but could not find a crumb of
fudge.

Then she seized Molly, playfully shaking her. "Tell me truly, did you
eat it all?"

Amid her struggles to free herself, Molly confessed that they had not.
"But, I can't find it," Polly persisted. "Do you know where it is,
Molly?"

"No."

"Oh, Molly!" This from Grace.

"I don't exactly know. You hid it," said Molly.

"Then Grace Wharton, tell me." Polly loosed her hold upon Molly, and
turned to Grace.

"No, the first that finds it can divide it and can have an extra piece."

In vain the three searched up and down the cliff. "Grace said she hid
it between two rocks," announced Molly at last.

"Then she's just got to find it," said Polly. "Grace! Grace!" she
called. And Grace responded by appearing on the rocks above them.

"You'll have to show us where you hid it."

On Grace's face was an expression of concern as she came swiftly
clambering down to them. "Why, girls," she cried as she reached the
spot where they stood, "I'm awfully afraid that---- Oh, dear, why
didn't I remember about the tide; I'm afraid they're spoiled." She ran
to a rock a little lower down.

"Look out or you'll get splashed," warned Molly. "There's a big wave
coming in."

Grace sprang back to avoid the swash of water which poured over the
rock at her feet; then she exclaimed ruefully: "If I wasn't sure
before, I am now! The fudge is just under that rock, between those two
small ones."

"Then it's simply all salty, if it isn't gone entirely," declared
Molly. True enough when they examined the spot, during a lull in the
inpour of waves, they discovered only a couple of water-soaked bits of
fudge, fast melting away.

"Our joke didn't turn out very well," said Molly turning to Polly.

"Oh, never mind," returned Polly cheerfully, "it would all be eaten up
and forgotten anyhow if I had not gone up to the house, so what's the
difference?"

"I'll make some very soon," Grace assured her. "I'll do it to-night."

"Oh, no, don't mind," said Polly. "We've had enough for to-day. See,
there is Aunt Ada coming down to us. She will tell us more about the
Dixons."

Miss Ada came with a scheme to unfold. "I'm going over to Green
Island," she told them, "and if I am not back in time for supper you
child