human
Let's keep right on going until we get back to camp, and not stop anywhere at all, she suggested.
gpt
Won't we lead the others a fine chase, though? They'll be dead by the time they get there.
human
What about us? asked Gladys.
gpt
We'll be dead ourselves.
human
I suppose we will, admitted Katherine, who hadn't thought of this before,
gpt
I know a way to fix it so we won't be dead,
human
How?
gpt
Leave a note for the others on that last tree we blazed, telling them to follow the sand beach around to the Point of Pines. There aren't any trees along the beach so they won't think anything about our not blazing a trail. Then we'll simply rent a boat and cut straight across the lake to the Point of Pines. From there we'll go on blazing the trail back to the place opposite Ellen's Isle where we are to signal Uncle Teddy. By cutting across the corner of the lake that way we'll save three miles that the others will have to walk, and they'll wonder and wonder how we got so far ahead of them.