“No, I’ve never seen them before. You must be mistaken about the boy’s having blue eyes.”
Jo Ann shook her head vigorously. “I’m positive his eyes were blue—his features were finer too, but his face was so dirty I couldn’t tell much about them.”
Florence smiled. “You’ve a fine imagination, Jo—trying to find another mystery already.”
“I didn’t try to find this mystery. It bumped right into me. If that boy lives around here, I’m going to find out more about him.”
At Jo Ann’s emphatic words, Florence laughed merrily. “All right, but don’t start now. If we’re going to stop at the cave, we’ll have to hurry.”
CHAPTER II
NEIGHBORS IN THE CAVE
The two girls hurried along the trail, and a few minutes later Florence pointed to a dark, shadowy place about fifty feet up the side of the cliff. “There’s the cave I was telling you about.”
“All I can see through the bushes is a black hole under some rocks. Can we climb up there? I’d like to explore it.”
“Yes, there’s a path leading up to it. It isn’t very large and won’t take you long to look it over.”
After rounding a curve in the trail, Florence led the way up the winding path toward the cave.