A panel splintered on the outside cabin door, and a heavy tramping of feet told them that the men had entered the room.
“No one in here, Gus.”
“It’s just as we thought. Flora locked the door and lied out of it.”
“I didn’t! I didn’t!” cried the girl. “Someone else must have done it while I was at the store. The door was unlocked when I went away.”
“There’s no one here now.”
“I—I thought I heard voices while we were coming down the river.”
“In this cabin?”
“Yes, just a low murmur.”
“You imagined it,” the man told her. “But I’ll take a look in the closet to be sure.”
He walked across the cabin toward the hiding place. Penny and Jerry braced themselves for the moment when the door would be flung open. They had trapped themselves and now faced almost certain capture.