CHAPTER XV

THE DIRECT WAY OF DOING IT Tom Cameron arrived in the _Trumpeter_ Sunday evening. He marked the _Marybell_ at anchor in the roadstead and presumed his friends were at the hotel, where they had engaged rooms by wireless before starting from New York. But he did not expect to find Ruth and his sister, to say nothing of the Copleys and the remainder of the party, in the state of excitement they were in when he arrived at the hotel. They were grouped with most of the members of the picture company on one of the porches…