Tommy regarded her with disapproving eyes.
Margery declared that she couldn't walk another step. Inquiry by Miss
Elting developed the fact that Buster had a blister on her right foot.
This meant another delay. Miss Elting removed the girl's shoe from
that foot and treated the blister. Half an hour was lost by this
delay, but no one except Tommy Thompson complained. Tommy complained
for the sake of saying something. She teased Margery so unmercifully
that Miss Elting was obliged to rebuke her, after which Tommy went off
by herself and sat pensively down by the roadside until the order to
march was given.
The afternoon was waning when once more they came in sight of the sea.
The setting sun had turned the expanse of ocean into a vast plain of
shimmering, quivering gold. The Meadow-Brook Girls uttered
exclamations of delight when they set eyes on the scene. For a few
moments they stood still, gazing and gazing as if it were not possible
to get enough of the, to most of them, unusual spectacle.
A full quarter of a mile ahead they observed that the shores a little
back were quite heavily wooded, though the trees were small and
slender. This particular spot seemed to have attracted Miss Elting's
attention to the exclusion of all else.
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