"Well, where have you children been?" asked Mrs. Martin as they came
trooping up to the tent, tired, hungry and dirty.
"Oh, we've been looking for gold," explained Ted, but he did not say
they had visited the cave, where they had been told not to go.
"You didn't dig any more deep holes, did you?" asked his grandfather.
"No, sir," answered Ted.
After dinner Ted asked Hal why he didn't speak of having Grandpa
Martin go to the cave with the big lantern.
"I thought you were going to do that," he said to Hal.
"Well, I was. But maybe we can find some more of the blue stones for
ourselves. We'll look around before we ask your grandpa to help."
Janet wanted to stay around camp and play with her dolls that
afternoon, and she took care of Trouble.
"Then we'll go for a goat ride," said Ted. "Come on, Hal."
The two boys hitched Nicknack to the wagon, and set off down the
island.
"We'll look for some more blue rocks," suggested Hal, and Ted was
willing.
On and on the two boys rode, now stopping to look at some pretty
flower, again waiting to hear the finish of some bird's song. They
looked on both sides of the woodland path for some of the blue rocks,
but, though they saw some of other colors, there were none like those
they wanted.
"Whoa there, where are you going now?" Ted suddenly called to
Nicknack, and the little boy pulled on the reins by which he guided
the goat--or "steered" it, as he sometimes called it.
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