the real work that we came here to do by going to the Graham house and
asking who owns the land."

"Fine again," Miss Ladd said. "I couldn't do better myself, maybe not as
well. I did think of going with you on your first trip, but I guess I'll
leave it all to you. Let's go back to the hotel now, and while you two
scouts are gone scouting, the rest of us will find something to
entertain us. Maybe we'll take a motorboat ride."

They started back at once and were soon at the hotel. Katherine and
Hazel decided that they would not even look for the address of the
Grahams in the directories at the hotel, but would go to a drug store
on the main business street for this information.

The other girls waited on the hotel portico while they were away on this
mission. They were gone about twenty minutes and returned with a supply
of picture postcards to mail to their friends. On a piece of paper
Katherine had written an address and she showed it to Miss Ladd. Here is
what the latter read:

"Stony Point."

"That's about three miles up the lake," Hazel said. "We thought we'd
hire an automobile and go up there."

"Do," said Miss Ladd approvingly. "And we'll take a motorboat and ride
up that way too, if we can get one. Oh, I have the idea now. We'll make
it a double inspection, part by land and part from the lake. We'll meet
you at a landing at Stony Point, if there is one, and will bring you
back in the boat. Now, you, Katherine and Hazel, wait here while I go
and find a motorboatman and make arrangements with him."

"I'll go with you," said Violet Munday.

The Guardian and Violet hastened down toward the main boat landing while
the other twelve girls waited eagerly for a successful report on this
part of the proposed program.

CHAPTER X.

A TRIP TO STONY POINT.

Miss Ladd and Violet returned in about twenty minutes and reported that
satisfactory arrangements had been made for a trip up the lake. They
were to start in an hour and a half.

Then Katherine and Hazel engaged an automobile for a few hours' drive
and before the motorboat started with its load of passengers, they were
speeding along a hard macadam road toward the point around which
centered the interest of their interrupted vacation plans at Fairberry
and their sudden departure on a very unusual and very romantic journey.

Twin Lakes is a summer-resort town located on the lower of two bodies of
water, similar in size, configuration, and scenery. T