“I’m afraid we took the wrong road,” his father replied.
“Are we lost—in the woods?” faltered Nan.
“It begins to look that way,” her father, answered. “Yes, it surely begins to look as though we were lost!”
CHAPTER XI
ADVENTURES OF THE NIGHT
Mr. Bobbsey brought the automobile to a stop not far from the great rock which Nan had first caught sight of. She did not remember to have passed it earlier in the trip, and this fact caused her to think they had come back by another road. And she was right.
“What are you going to do, Daddy?” asked Bert, as he saw his father getting out of the car.
“I’m going to look around a bit,” was the answer. “There may be a sign near this rock, telling us where we are. I don’t very often get lost, but I suppose I was thinking so much of the strange woman we are after that I didn’t pay proper heed to the road.”
“S’posing there isn’t any sign?” asked Nan.
“Well, we’ll wait and see whether there is or not before we look for trouble,” laughed Mr. Bobbsey. His laugh made Nan and Bert feel better.
There was still a little, lingering light where the trees did not quite meet in an arch overhead in the road, and by this faint glow Mr. Bobbsey looked around the rock for some sign that would tell him which direction to take to get to the nearest town.