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"I wonder to whom it belongs." "There's a name printed on it over here," said Bunny, pointing to the side of the box turned away from shore. "What does it say?" asked Mrs. Slater, for she could not look without stepping into the water. "There's an F and an R and an A and an N and a K," said Bunny slowly. "That spells Frank," said Mrs. Slater. "What else is there?" Bunny spelled out the rest of the name, and also an address. "Well, then it would seem this box belongs to a Mr. Frank Ravenwood of Sea Gate," said Harry's mother. "Is there anything else on that side, Bunny?" "No'm," he answered. "Frank Ravenwood, of Sea Gate," went on Mrs. Slater. "Where is Sea Gate, Bunny?" "It's on the coast, just down below where we live," was the answer. "Then we can write and tell Mr. Ravenwood of Sea Gate that we have his box that was washed ashore," went on Harry's mother. "But we must get it higher up on the beach or it will wash away again. I wonder----" But she suddenly stopped, for Sue gave a cry of alarm and pointed toward shore. "Oh, look!" exclaimed the little girl. "Look!" CHAPTER XXII THE SURPRISING LETTER Mrs. Slater was so interested in looking at the strange box which had been washed up on shore, and was thinking so deeply about the name of Frank Ravenwood which Bunny spelled for her that, for the moment, she did not quite understand what Sue meant. "What is it, Sue?" she asked the little girl, for Sue kept on pointing toward something behind Mrs. Slater. "The tide!" exclaimed Bunny's sister. "The tide's coming up and it's washing over the sand and we're on an island! We can't get back lessen we wade!" Mrs. Slater gave a startled cry, and looked toward where Sue pointed. Surely enough, while they had been watching the box and while Bunny and Harry had been getting it to shore the tide had risen and now covered part of the strip of sand on which they had all walked out. As Sue said, it was an island, and the only way to get to shore was to wade. "I'm going to take off my shoes and stockings!" cried the little girl, hopping up on the box and beginning to loosen her laces. "You'd better take off your shoes, too, Mrs. Slater. If you don't you'll get your feet wet when you have to wade to shore. Course you haven't got your mother here to scold you if you get your shoes wet, but maybe your husband mightn't like it," went on Sue. "You can wade same as I can." "We don't have
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