"God bless my soul!" bleated Aunt Agatha with round, affrighted eyes,
"there's a dime in the fish! And I do beg your pardon, young man, but
will you be so good as to poke the smelling salts out of the fire
before they explode."
There was little likelihood of the final catastrophe, but Mr. Poynter
obeyed. Laughing a little as he collected the scattered cargo, he
good-humoredly suggested that he was not nearly so dangerous as Aunt
Agatha's petrified gaze suggested, and that possibly she might remember
him--his name was Poynter--and that Miss Westfall's camp lay a little
farther to the east.
Aunt Agatha departed, greatly impressed by his gallantry and common
sense. Arriving in the camp of her niece, she roused an alarming
commotion by halting unobserved among the trees, staring hard at her
niece's back-hair, dropping her hand bag, and bursting into tears that
brought the startled campers to her side in a twinkling.
"Great Scott, Johnny!" exclaimed Diane, aghast. "It's Aunt Agatha!"
Aunt Agatha dangerously motioned them away with the hand bag Johnny had
returned.
"I'll be all right in a minute!" she sniffed tearfully. "Mamma was
that way, too--mamma was. Tears would burst right out of her,
especially when she grew so stout.
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