“He had to get in there some way. If we can find an opening—”
Judy stopped with her sentence half finished because, in almost the same moment, she and Peter had found it. The back door was locked, but there beside it was a small hole gnawed by beavers. It was large enough for a cat or a beaver to squeeze through, but not for a person.
“It’s large enough for a table leg, too!” Judy exclaimed, bending to measure the space with her hand. “Peter, this must be where the beavers found all that furniture they built into their dam, but what’s this?”
Reaching in a little farther, Judy’s fingers closed over the small, round object Blackberry had been rolling on the floor.
CHAPTER XV
A Band of Gold
“What is it?” asked Peter as Judy held the object in her closed hand.
She smiled at him. “You’ll have to guess, but I’ll give you a hint. It’s something I don’t need. I already have one, and I love it dearly. You gave it to me.”
“I gave you Blackberry.”
“I know. This is the thing he was rolling around in there.”