“Hop in, Jess,” said Chet, kindly. “That is, if you are sure you won’t be frightened. I’m going to drive her some.”
“I’m never scared when you are driving, Chet,” returned the girl.
“I guess I’ll get you to the inn at the picnic grounds in safety, at least,” and the boy laughed. “You can wait there for us.”
“No?”
“I’m not going to be left there to watch the car while you boys hunt for Laura.”
“But we may have to get a party of neighbors there and beat up the woods.”
“But I believe now she was left behind in the old house,” declared Jess.
“Not likely,” said Lance. “She ran out some other door. Got turned around in those woods. That’s what happened.”
“You may be right,” Jess admitted. “But I have a feeling that it isn’t so. Something happened to Laura right there in the haunted house.”