The boys were at the car now, and they were speaking to the man!
CHAPTER V
THE POLICE PATROL
For some moments neither girl spoke: Tavia stood out in the road like an officer, while Dorothy did not lift her head from her attitude of prayer. Suddenly Dorothy, in a frenzy of fear, rushed out to where Tavia stood, and threw her arms around her.
"Tavia," she exclaimed, "I must go to them. I cannot stand another moment like this—I am simply choking. Come: See, they have not been able to manage him. He is in the car yet. Oh, do let us go!" and the look on the terrified girl's face so frightened Tavia she forgot to watch, forgot everything but Dorothy—something would surely happen to her if that anxiety was not soon relieved.
But to go to the boys! Might not that make matters worse?
"Dorothy, darling," began Tavia, "don't be so frightened. Perhaps they are just talking pleasantly to him—"
"Then I must hear them. I must know what it is all about. Do come!" and she tried to drag Tavia from the spot to which she seemed riveted.
"If you would only wait here while I go down first, and then if it is all right, that is, if the boys want us to come—"