The lady looked very anxious. "I'm afraid she will be lost," she said. "Some of us must go and look for her."
Cousin Mary Roby, and also Mrs. Ward's sister Jennette, at once volunteered to make the search. So taking the sun umbrellas, they started off in the direction Emily had seen her cousin go.
But neither in this, nor in any other direction, could they find her. They inquired of children coming and going, if they had seen a little girl with a basket; but no one had noticed her. At last, they were obliged to return without any intelligence of the wanderer.
"What shall we do?" exclaimed her aunt, in real distress. "It was very wrong of her to go out of sight."
"Oh, mamma! Don't say so," urged Emily. "I'm sure she didn't mean to do wrong."
"Did you call her name, Mary?"
"We tried to; but the roaring of the water quite drowned our feeble voices."
"I must go at once," said Mrs. Morgan, taking a broad rimmed hat from the carriage. "I do wish George would come."
Just at this moment, there was a loud shout from behind the rock.
"Emily! Emily!"