Chapter 13 A THRILLING PLAN
　　Anne called them to dinner. 'Come along!' she cried. I've got it all ready. Tell Mr. Luffy there'splenty for him, too.'
　　Mr. Luffy came along willingly. He thought Anne was a marvellous camp-housekeeper. Helooked approvingly at the spread set out on a white cloth on the ground.
　　'Hm! Salad. Hard-boiled eggs. Slices of ham. And what's this - apple-pie! My goodness! Don'ttell me you cooked that here, Anne.'
　　Anne laughed. 'No. All this came from the farm, of course. Except the lime juice and water.'
　　George ate with the others, but said hardly a word. She was brooding over her wrongs, and Mr.
　　Luffy looked at her several times, puzzled.
　　'Are you quite well, George?' he said, suddenly. George went red.
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　　'Yes, thank you,' she said, and tried to be more herself, though she couldn't raise a smile at all.
　　Mr. Luffy watched her, and was relieved to see that she ate as much as the others. Probably hadsome sort of row, he guessed correctly. Well, it would blow over! He knew better than tointerfere.
　　They finished lunch and drank all the lime juice. It was a hot day and they were very thirstyindeed. Timmy emptied all his dish of water and went and gazed longingly² into the canvasbucket of washing-water. But he was too well-behaved to drink it, now that he knew he mustn't.
　　Anne laughed, and poured some more water into his dish.
　　'Well,' said Mr. Luffy, beginning to fill his old brown pipe, 'if anyone wants to come into townwith me this afternoon, I'll be starting in fifteen minutes.'
　　'I'll come!' said Anne, at once. 'It won't take George and me long to wash-up these things. Willyou come too, George?'
　　'No,' said George, and the boys heaved a sigh of relief. They had guessed she wouldn't want tocome with them - but, if she'd know what they were going to try and find out, she would havecome all right!
　　'I'm going for a walk with Timmy,' said George, when all the washing-up had been done.
　　'All right,' said Anne, who secretly thought that George would be much better left on her own towork off her ill-feelings that afternoon. 'See you later.'
　　George and Timmy set off. The others went with Mr. Luffy to where his car was parked besidethe great rock. They got in.
　　'Hi! The trailer's fastened to it,' called Julian. 'Wait a bit. Let me get out and undo³ it. We don'twant to take an empty trailer bumping along behind us for miles.'
　　'Dear me. I always forget to undo the trailer,' said Mr. Luffy,

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