ther, begging him to send for her immediately.

"Dear Papa," she wrote, "if you only knew what a dreadful place
this is you would not leave me here another day. The girls are
very rude and horrid and low class; they are continually fighting
and playing rough jokes on each other, and especially on me. I
don't like Miss Kent as well as you said I would. She makes me
go in bathing until I'm all tired out and cold and tries to make
me swim when it's impossible for me to learn. She takes me out
beyond my depth and ducks me under when I don't make my hands go
right. She treats me as if I were a baby and won't trust me out
of her sight. It seems they have a rule here about not eating
candy between meals and I didn't know it and I bought some and
ate it and she called me a sneak before all the girls and made me
throw the candy into the lake. I am very miserable and sick most
of the time as we don't get enough to eat, and what we do get
isn't good. I'm always cold at night and they often let it rain
right in on our beds. If you don't send for me right away I may
get sick and die before very long.

"Your miserable daughter,

"GLADYS

"P.S.: Aunt Sally is going to Atlantic City in August; may I go
with her?"

She gave the letter to the captain of the steamer when he stopped
to bring the supplies and then sat down on the dock and stared
moodily out over the lake. She was lonesome; and in spite of the
fact that she had stayed home of her own accord she resented the
fact that the girls had gone off and left her. The canoes lay
side by side on the beach and Gladys was seized with a fancy to
get into one and go gliding out over the smooth surface of the
lake.

She was not allowed in a canoe because she had not taken the
swimming test, but she considered this another piece of tyranny
on Nyoda's part. She could paddle pretty well, as Sahwah had
taught her to handle the sponson, and she saw no reason at all
why she couldn't enjoy a quiet canoe ride up and down the beach
while no one was around to interfere.

"I'll stay near shore," she told herself, as she laid hold of one
of the canoes and launched it as she had seen the girls do. She
managed to seat herself in the right end and pushed off from the
shore. It was more fun even than she had imagined, and the canoe
seemed so light in comparison to the sponson that she sent it
flying through the water with little effort. "I'll bet they're
keeping me out of t