CHAPTER V 

 THE GIRL'S DAY 



THE Girl will arrive at Boca Grande on 

 Friday the thirteenth, prepared to re- 

 sume command of the Irene and her 

 family." 



"What's to be done?" said I to the Camera- 

 man, after showing him the foregoing. "We 

 can't trust the child so near the Big Pass, with 

 that canoe at hand." 



"Better run down to Captiva. That's a lady- 

 like pass with plenty of fishing. The child 

 couldn't get into trouble there if she tried." 



That night we anchored just south of Captiva 

 Pass and in the morning took her ladyship from 

 the little mail boat that plies between Fort 

 Myers and Punta Gorda. 



"What made you come away from Boca 

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