Chapter 26 THE PURSUIT

"What is it?" cried Cora, as she came up from the little dining cabin, where she and the other girls had been "doing" the dishes.

"A small steamer, Miss," answered the engineer of the Tartar. "I can't just make out what she is-sort of misty and hazy just now."

"She seems to be headed this way, too," spoke Bess, who had joined Cora on the litt