"It shall be just as you people wish.
Personally I am not keen for it, except that it will be a treat to watch the mountain folk at play." All except Miss Briggs were enthusiastic for the dance.
"With my damaged countenance, I shan't be able to dance," she complained.
"You don't intend to dance on your face, do you!" wondered Emma.
"If I perform the way I did with the bear, I undoubtedly shall.

There is no telling what I might do." "You ought to have a net to perform over, like the circus people do," declared Emma.

"Do we go ?" "Yes, let's go," urged Nora.
The others being of the same mind, Grace gave a rather reluctant consent and the matter was settled then and there, greatly adding to the happiness of Emma Dean.
That afternoon Grace made an inspection of the cornfield and discovered the imprints of heavy boots in the soft dirt near the camp.

There had been, she believed, four men in the party, and all four evidently had been spying on the Overland camp.

She followed their trail until she came to the edge of the cornfield, facing the Thompson cabin.