“By the air route, Mrs. Gray,” was the smiling reply.
Grace Harlowe shrugged her shoulders.
“You are a very clever man, Mr. White,” she said, and walked to her tent to awaken Miss Briggs.
When informed that Stacy Brown was missing, a few moments later, Nora Wingate became hysterical, but Grace and Elfreda calmed her, and the party were ready to sit down to breakfast when the guide announced it as ready.
It was a trying, anxious morning for the little band of Overlanders. White made frequent trips to the rock, observed questioningly by Elfreda.
“What is he looking for, Grace?” she asked. “Does the man expect to find the bandits that way?”
“I don’t know. Why not ask him, J. Elfreda?”
“Not I. You know I would not.”
About mid-forenoon Grace suggested to the guide that he go out into the forest and see if he could glean any information as to the direction that the kidnappers had taken when they left the camp, with either Hippy or Stacy Brown.
White pondered the subject a moment, then agreed.