Perhaps, having mastered the secret of rope-throwing, she had lost interest in it.
"I will start practicing again to-morrow," promised Miss Briggs.
"You need it.

I don't believe you could even catch cold with a rope," teased Lieutenant Wingate.
"Yes I could--I--" Elfreda's following remark was lost in the laughter of her companions.

"What I said, but which you folks were too impolite to listen to, was that I will show you whether I can throw a rope or not.

Let me have it, Grace." "You will find it just inside of my tent, on the left-hand side.

What are you going to do ?" "I am going out, as soon as it is light enough to see, and practice until breakfast time." This Miss Briggs did with the graying of the dawn, after a night of peaceful rest, while Grace and Hippy kept guard over the camp.