He believes in fair play and he wouldn't start before ten o'clock--that's refreshment time, isn't it ?" "It was to be," said Minerva.
"That's the time we were waiting for," said Brownie.
"Has he a watch ?" Margaret asked.
"Yes, it's usually about twenty minutes fast," said Roy.
"Oh, isn't that perfectly _terrible_!" said Dora.
"He'll make terrible inroads on it," said Connie Bennett.
"_Inroads_!" said Roy.

"You mean turnpikes and highways." "Well, then, why don't you boys hurry ?" Minerva asked excitedly.

"It isn't too late.

_Oh, do hurry_!" "We can never tow that island back against the tide," said Dorry Benton.
"We can remove the stuff to the boat though," said Artie Van Arlen.
"I'm going to 'phone to Mr.Speeder to get his motor-boat and go after him; he can tow it back." "Listen--_shh_--he's calling," said Townsend.
"Shh--_shhhh_!" "Listen." From down the river, a little farther than before, came a voice spent by the distance.

"_I'm on the flats, I'm stuck._" "Thank goodness!" said Minerva.