"Teddy," she asked, "are we—are we—lost?"
For a moment Teddy did not answer. Then he replied slowly:
"Yes—I guess we are lost, Janet!"
CHAPTER XIX
THE HIDDEN VALLEY
The Curlytops were in trouble. It was not the first time they had been lost, no indeed! But it was the first time they could remember being lost so far away from home, and in such a big place as a Western prairie. They did not know what to do.
"Don't you know the way home?" asked Janet, still keeping close to her brother. It was getting dark, and, somehow, she felt safer near him, even if he was only a year older than she was.
"I'd know the way home back to the ranch house if we could find the rocks with the cave where Clipclap was," Teddy replied.
"Let's look for them some more," suggested Janet. "If we don't get home pretty soon we'll be all in the dark and—and we'll have to stay out here all alone."