“I can always hear it right over my room,” said Nora when the band of Chickadees inundated that territory. “There! Did you hear that?”
“Yes, someone is crying upstairs,” declared Miss Beckwith, “and we must see who it is.”
“But suppose——”
“Here’s Cap. He would not let anyone touch us,” declared Nora. “But Becky——”
“Come along, girls, that is not the voice of a man or woman. Come, we must do something. It sounds like——”
Bouncing up on Nora, Cap whined. “There, he knows, he wants me to go up. What is it, Cap?” Nora asked again, and again the dog whined piteously.
Now, everyone was willing to lead, yet they formed quite an orderly drill.
This was an emergency and emergency always means order for Scouts.
[CHAPTER XXIII—RAIDING THE ATTIC]
No one could tell just how they got there, but realizing that some one was suffering they had all followed Cap to the attic, and there waited again for the sound that was to lead them to the victim.