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 and got three runners across the plate before Pat Browne, in right field, pulled down a fly and ended the fracas. Again Laurie was a non-*combatant, although Elk Thurston caught during the final two innings and behaved rather well during that hectic ninth.

The following afternoon Ned, as self-appointed secretary and treasurer, rendered an accounting of the Pequot Queen fund, showing a balance in the treasury of $1.42. All bills had been paid, and the question of disposing of the balance came before the meeting. Kewpie's suggestion was typical.

"Pay it to Miss Comfort," he said, "and we'll trade it out in cake!"

"It isn't ours," Ned reminded him sternly. "Besides it's not for you to be thinking of cake, old dear."

It was Polly's suggestion that was finally adopted. They would give the vast sum to Brose Wilkins to be used for the purchase of flower-seeds for the boxes and beds. That momentous question settled, they set forth to call at the Pequot Queen, or, as Laurie reminded them they should now call the boat, the Lydia W. Frye.