[Pg 55] "Yes," went on Sammy, with a grin. "This is a fine chance for us. Christmas vacation starts next week. Why can't we go to Pine Island on the ice-boat, camp there a few days with Mr. Jessup, and have Jed come back for us—that is if he will?" and he looked at the former bully. "Of course we'll come for you!" he exclaimed. "We'd do anything for you boys. We'll take you to Pine Island any time you say!" "Then it's all settled!" spoke Sammy, though it was far from that. "We'll go camping with Mr. Jessup, and—we'll find out the secret of the old hermit," he added in a whisper to his chums. [Pg 56] [Pg 56] CHAPTER VII AT CAMP MYSTERY CHAPTER VII AT CAMP MYSTERY "Sammy, do you really think we can do it?" "How did you happen to think of it?" Thus Frank and Bob questioned Sammy as they walked away from Jed and the larger boys, after getting the promise of the use of the ice-boat any time they wanted it. "Of course I think we can do it," answered Sammy. "And I don't just know how I happened to think of it, except that I knew if we did go camping on Pine Island we'd have to take some extra clothes with us, and maybe something to eat, and we couldn't very well do that and skate. So I thought of the ice-boat. It'll hold a lot." "It's a fine idea!" exclaimed Frank. "Now the next thing is to see if our folks will let us go." The boys were a little worried about that part of the program. True, they had been in a number of adventures of late, and their parents had not objected to their going off on several trips during the Summer; trips, too, that kept them away over night. But now it was Winter, and sleeping away from their warm beds might mean severe colds, if nothing worse. So all three of the boys
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