“Haven’t been here,” declared Natalie. “They have gone to Mt. Harry again, or somewhere else, trying to locate the Gypsy camp.”
“Perhaps you didn’t put the olives there,” suggested Mabel.
“I’m sure——” began Natalie, and then as the others came to the tent to help her look, she added:
“And the corkscrew is gone, too, and a can of sardines! I left them all together here on the box, intending to open the olives, and now they’re gone.”
“Were you going to open the sardines, too?” asked Mrs. Bonnell.
“No, Jack asked me for them; he said he’d call this afternoon. They haven’t any in camp. Girls, some one has been here taking our things!” and Natalie looked tragically at her companions.
CHAPTER XVII
A SHARP ATTACK
“Natalie Fuller! Don’t you dare say such things!”
“The idea of any one being at our camp!”