"Maybe Bentley wrote those signs," said Julia.
"Bentley!" exclaimed Grace. "That big boy wrote 'Take me to mama'! Julia, Julia, Julia! Are you as far gone as that?"
"He could write them for fun, couldn't he?" fired back the much tantalized girl.
"Well, he could, of course, but how would he get the fun out of doing a thing like that? No, we have to look either for a freak or a poor neglected child. Now, True Treds, take your choice!" advised Louise.
"I choose the freak," decided Cleo. "Freaks are funny."
"And I take the chee-i-ld!" trilled Grace, "children need to be cared for, and True Treds should help."
"Whatever will Captain Dave think when he hears we have been on the forbidden ground?" asked Louise. "I care more for his opinion than for anything else."
"Guess we all do," said Margaret seriously. "We wouldn't like him to think we actually defied him."
"But wasn't it the most delicious joke," Grace reminded them. "When I didn't die a sudden death as Neal called out 'Why, that's Luna Land!' I will tell you girls, I am doomed to a ripe old age."
"Suppose we go right down now, and tell Captain Dave all about it?" proposed Louise. "I shall feel better when the dark secret is off my conscience."