CHAPTER XIX

THE MASQUERADE "Steady! Back water!" It was Hazel who gave the command, and the momentary feeling of panic that had swept over Alice passed. "Over that way!" Hazel went on, nodding to indicate that she meant to steer their canoe toward a bit of still water, an eddy formed under an overhanging bank of the stream. "All right!" was the tense reply of her chum, and a moment later the light craft shot past the rolling overturned one of Sylvia and Rose, and was in quiet water. Meanwhile, after the first sudden plunge int…