Before the young folks departed from Lighthouse Point, too, Miss Kate invited the life savers, and Mother Purling, and Phineas and some of the other longshoremen and their wives to a "party" at the bungalow. And there were good things to eat (Heavy saw to that, of course) and a moving-picture entertainment brought down from the city for that evening, and a big display of fireworks afterward on the shore.
This wound up Ruth Fielding's visit to Lighthouse Point. The fortnight of fun was ended all too soon. She and Helen and Tom, and the rest of the visitors, started for home, all promising, if their parents and guardians agreed, to meet Jane Ann Hicks and her uncle a week later, in Syracuse, ready for the long and delightful journey across the continent to Bullhide, Montana.
"Well, we certainly did have some great times," was Tom's comment, after the last goodbyes had been spoken and the young folks were homeward bound.
"Oh, it was lovely," answered his twin sister. "And think of how we helped Nita—I mean Jane Ann."
"Most of the credit for that goes to Ruth," said Tom.
"Oh, no! " cried the girl from the Red Mill. "Yes, we certainly had a grand time," she added.
