Then Mollie shot into view.
"I-- I found it!" she gasped.
"What?" chorused the others.
"The missing canoe those boys have been looking for! It is down there
on the bottom, freighted with stones. We will get it up for them!"
CHAPTER XXIII
SETTING A TRAP
"Are you sure it is the canoe?" asked Betty, who did not want Mollie
to take any unnecessary risks.
"Of course I am," came the confident answer, as Mollie poised, in her
dripping bathing suit, on the little dock. She made a pretty picture,
too, with her red cap, and blue suit trimmed with white. "I could feel
the edge of the gunwhale," she went on, "and the stones in it that
keep it down."
"But how can we get it up?" asked Grace, who was sitting on the dock,
splashing her feet in the water. Grace never did care much about
getting wet. Amy said she thought she looked better dry. Certainly she
was a pretty girl and knew how to "pose" to make the most of her
charms-- small blame to her, though, for she was unconscious of it.
"We can get it up easily enough," declared Mollie, wringing the water
from her skirt, "All we'll have to do will be to toss out the stones,
one by one, and the canoe will almost float itself.
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