For a moment the others did not realize what she meant. They stared at the big red ball which was sinking to rest amid a bank of gorgeously colored clouds. Then Jack exclaimed:
“By Jove! you’re right, Sis. The sun should be back of us. We were going east, but we’ve got turned around, and are going west.”
“Unless the sun has changed,” put in Paul, with a laugh, “and is coming up in the morning. We may have been walking all night and didn’t know it.”
“It’s no joke,” said Cora, seriously, as the others laughed. “Jack, we’re lost!”
CHAPTER XVII—TWO MEN
Naturally enough Cora’s words were echoed aloud by some of the party.
“Lost!” cried Belle. “How do you know?”
“We’re going in the wrong direction,” Cora said. “Don’t you know when persons get lost in the woods they always go around in a circle? Nearly always they turn to the right, as we have done. I forget the explanation, but it has something to do with the right side of the body being stronger than the left. And that’s what we’ve done. We’ve wandered around in a circle, so of course we’re lost.”
“That doesn’t follow at all,” declared Walter.
“Why not?” challenged Cora.