Part 6 (1/2)
”What did he do, Ben?” asked Laura
”He jumped into the briny deep, and rescued the beautiful heroine of the ht to have seen it, Jessie The poor girl was going down for the last time when Dave, with a do-or-die look on his handso spume, and struck out boldly----”
”Ben, will you please stop?” pleaded Dave ”I never heard such foolish talk before in my life!”
”But he did juirl,” broke in Phil
”If he hadn't gone after her she ht have drowned”
”Who was she?” asked Laura; while Jessie, wide-eyed, showed her interest
”The leading lady of the film company--a Miss Della Ford,” answered the shi+powner's son ”A olden-brown hair, drea, you know”
”Oh, Dave, that was splendid of you to save her fro!” said Jessie
”Indeed it was!” added Ben ”And she was rabbed Dave's hands for all she orth, and, at one tiht around his neck”
”Oh, Ben!”
”Well, it seeirl, too, I can tell you!”
”She was not going to do anything of the kind, Jessie! Don't pay any attention to him,” broke in Dave, and now his face was decidedly red
”Cory,” and he started to help the two girls into the tonneau of the automobile
”We'll have to hear more of this later on,” said Dunston Porter, as he started the car
”Yes, I'd like to hear more about Miss Ford,” added Jessie, in a somewhat uncertain tone
CHAPTER V
DAVE AT HOME
Mirror Lake was a beautiful sheet of water nestling a the mountains of the Upper Adirondacks of New York State At the lower end of the lake, where there was a well-defined trail running to several fashi+onable sualows, one of six rooht roo on a s about a thousand feet back into the woods of the mountain-side
As my old readers will remember, Ben Basswood's father was interested in real estate, and, a year or two before, he and Mr Wadsworth had gone into a land deal of considerable proportions Several i one of the deals Mr Wadsworth and Mr Basswood had becoentle the property, the jewelryit at public auction; but to this Mr Basswood had demurred
”I think, Mr Wadsworth,” he had said, ”if we hold that property for a few years it will be far more valuable than it is now The State road has been built to within a fewcarried directly past Mirror Lake Not only that; there is also talk of the railroad putting in a spur through that district, and of course that will help a great deal”
”Very well, Mr Basswood If you think we ought to hold the land, we'll do it,” had been Mr Wadsworth's reply ”But what are we going to do with the bungalows in the meantime?”