I say, let's git out o' this!" exclaimed a third voice,
apparently close at hand; "we've had our fill o' grub and might as well
make ourselves scarce now."

"All right, Joe," returned the voice of the first speaker; "we'll git
inter that feller's boat, and no doubt he'll take us ashore to git rid of
us."

A sound as of retreating footsteps followed, then all was quiet.

"Very well done, Cousin Ronald; one could almost see those fellows,"
laughed the captain.

"I couldn't see them, papa," said little Elsie. "I could only hear them.
What was the reason?"

"Suppose you ask Cousin Ronald," was her father's reply.

"So you are a ventriloquist, sir?" remarked Percy Landreth, in a tone
between assertion and enquiry, and giving the old gentleman a look of
mingled curiosity and amusement.

"You think so, do you, sir? But why should I be suspected more than anyone
else in this company of friends and relatives?" asked Cousin Ronald in a
quiet tone.

"Well, sir, it seems to me evident from all I have seen and heard. All
appear to look to you as one who is probably at the bottom of all these
mysterious doings."

"No, not quite all, Percy," Violet said with a smile.

"So there are two, are there?" queried Percy. "Then the other, I presume,
is Mr. Hugh Lilburn."

"O Percy!" cried Lucilla in half reproachful tones, "I wish you hadn't
found out quite so soon; because it spoils the fun."

"Oh, no, not quite, I think," he returned, "for I noticed that even those
who must have been in the secret were occasionally taken by surprise."

"Yes," she admitted with a laugh, "I did think for a moment that there was
a man calling to us from a boat down there on the lake, and that there was
a mouse in my reticule."

CHAPTER XIV.

Sight-seeing was resumed again the next day, much time being spent in the
Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, the marvel of the Exposition,
covering more than forty acres of ground, and filled with curious and
beautiful things from almost every quarter of the globe. Hours were spent
there, then a ride in an electric boat on the lagoon was taken as a
restful form of recreation.

The greater part of the afternoon was spent in the ever-fascinating Midway
Plaisance, then they returned to the yacht for their evening meal and an
hour or two of restful chat in the easy-chairs on its deck, and with the
setting of the sun the older ones returned to the Court of Honor, leaving
the children in bed and