Both women were in the shack with the girl, and the door was closed, before Dorothy could even scream.
CHAPTER XXV
THE WOODCHUCK HUNT
“Now, I got it all fixed, Tavia. You come along with us and see the fun,” said Joe Dale, at luncheon time. “I’m sorry Dorothy’s gone over to the post-office. She won’t find anything, I’m afraid. Nobody came there this morning when I was on watch,” he added, as though that was conclusive.
“But she will expect me——”
“No, she won’t. Bob and Ned are going there right after two o’clock, they say, and they’ll take her place.”
“If Bob Niles is going there I don’t want to go,” said Tavia, with a toss of her head. “He’s getting too—numerous.”
“Come on with us and hunt woodchucks. We got the holes all marked this morning,” said her brother Johnny. “And Rogue’s got a turtle—a real snappy one, if it is so early in the spring.”
“A turtle?” asked Tavia, wonderingly. “What do you do with a turtle catching woodchucks?”