"I wonder what Harriet has in her little head now?" she said under her
breath.
"Why, what do you mean?" asked the Chief Guardian. "Buried treasure
along this little strip of coast? Perhaps, however, you may mean out
on the Shoal Islands."
"No, Mrs. Livingston. Right here in Camp Wau-Wau there is buried
treasure. I don't know whether it is worth anything or not, but there
is a buried treasure here."
The girls uttered exclamations of amazement, for they saw that their
new Torch Bearer was in earnest, that she meant every word she had
uttered about the treasure.
"Now, isn't that perfectly remarkable?" breathed Margery.
"Oh, do tell us about it?" cried the girls.
"Not a word more," answered Harriet. "I give you leave to find it,
though, if you can. Some of you clever trailers see if you can pick up
the trail and follow it to its end. At the end you will find the
buried treasure, unless it has been taken away within a few hours,
which I very much doubt. Now, that is all I am going to tell you about
it."
"Do you really mean that, Harriet?" questioned Grace.
Harriet nodded.
"Why don't you get it yourthelf, then?"
"I may one of these days if the girls fail to find it. I wish to see
if they are good trailers.
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