“Where is she?” echoed Slim.
173The girls sat dumb. “You ought to know where she is,” said Katherine accusingly to the Captain at last. “You took her during the panic yesterday.”
“We–took–her–during–the–panic?” said the Captain wonderingly. “We never did! What do you mean? I never noticed until just now that she wasn’t in her place.”
“You have too got her,” said Hinpoha. “The sign of the Dark of the Moon Society was left tied to a twig where she had stood.”
“The sign of the what?” asked the Captain.
“The Dark of the Moon Society,” said Katherine sharply. It struck her that the Captain was trying to appear dense.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. He looked perplexed for a moment and then strode over to Anthony and caught him by the neck. “Where’s Eeny-Meeny?” he said in an ominously even voice.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” said Anthony, struggling to pull out of his grasp. “Ouch! Quit your pinching me.”
The Captain took a little firmer hold. “You’d better tell,” he advised. “It might not be healthy for you to keep it to yourself. So that’s what you meant when you said you knew something we didn’t.”
Anthony still wiggled and tried to free himself, protesting his innocence.