“He’s a Gyp!” cried Sammy. “We’re done for, Tess!”
CHAPTER XXV—IT MUST BE ALL RIGHT
As Mrs McCall told Ruth Kenway when she arrived with Luke and Cecile at the old Corner House, the other Kenway sister and Neale O’Neil had not started out on their hunt for the Gypsy encampment alone. Mr. Pinkney, hearing of the absence of the smaller girls, had volunteered to go with the searchers.
“Somehow, my wife feels that Sammy may be with Tess and Dot,” he explained to Neale and Agnes. “I never contradict her at such times. And perhaps he is. No knowing where that boy of mine is likely to turn up, anyway.”
“But you do not suppose for one instant, Mr. Pinkney, that Sammy has come and coaxed my sisters to run away?” cried Agnes from the tonneau, as the car started out through Willow Street.
“I am not so sure about that. You know, he got Dot to run away with him once,” chuckled Mr. Pinkney.
“This is nothing like that, I am sure!” declared Agnes.
“I am with you there, Aggie,” admitted Neale. “I guess this is a serious affair. The Gypsies are in it.”
Between the two, the boy and the girl told Mr. Pinkney all about the silver bracelet and the events connected with it. The man listened with appreciation.
“I don’t know, of course, anything about the fight between the two factions of Gypsies over what you call Queen Alma’s bracelet—”