But we are forgetting to eat breakfast.
Just now I am more in need of breakfast than of buried treasure."
"Yes, girls, please eat your breakfast. We must put the camp to rights
as soon as we finish, for I have an idea that we may have visitors
before the day is done," urged Mrs. Livingston.
The Wau-Wau girls were too much excited over Harriet's words to be
particularly interested in the subject of visitors just then, so they
hurried their breakfast, discussing the new Torch Bearer's veiled
suggestions, eager to have done with the morning meal and the morning
work that they might try to solve this delightful mystery. Harriet was
well satisfied with the excitement she had stirred, though having done
so would rather bar her from carrying out certain plans that she had
had in mind ever since the previous night.
Later in the morning, however, under pretext of wishing to get pine
boughs for her bed, she, with Tommy, strolled off into the woods, but
beyond locating the spot where she had lain when the man stumbled over
her in the darkness she made no progress toward solving the mystery.
Not the slightest trace of the box did she discover. Of course,
Harriet did not hope to find the mysterious box standing in plain
sight, but she could not imagine what they had done with it in so
brief a time.
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