Why, Judge Carney's boys had been lost all night and breakfasted on blueberries. It wasn't uncommon.
And nothing could happen to her—with Johnny Byrd along.
Oh, Johnny would take care of her—by morning everything would be all right.
But how in the world had it happened? That was such an easy trail!
And that was the question that stared, Argus-eyed, at Jane Blair. It was the question, she knew, that they were all asking themselves—and the others—in covert curiosity.
What had happened? And how had it happened?
CHAPTER X
FANTASY
She awoke to fright—some great hairy beast of the forest was nosing her.