Rejoining Rosemary and Eileen at the oak tree, the girls gathered together their knapsacks and nature notebooks.
Now not even Veve really expected that upon their return to the area they would find anything out of the ordinary.
However, in the past the Brownies had enjoyed several unusual adventures. From experience they knew that strange things could occur. Hadn’t the entire troop once been snowbound at Snow Valley?
And another time, Veve and Connie had been carried away with a traveling circus. The Brownie Scouts never would forget that time, because in trying to find the two girls they also had become involved with a man named Pickpocket Joe.
Even more recently the Brownies had earned a great deal of money picking cherries at a nearby orchard. Through their efforts the city had sponsored a cherry festival. Then, as a special reward, the Brownies had been sent to Washington with all expenses paid. This story has been recounted in another volume, entitled: “The Brownie Scouts in the Cherry Festival.”
Wishing for a tree house, however, was an entirely different matter. Even Veve and Sunny who were very imaginative, knew that fairies existed only in story books. Yet could one be certain that the message telling them to return had been a joke?
“Time to start home,” Miss Gordon abruptly announced. “We’ve had enough excitement for one day.”
En route to the exit gate, the girls kept an alert watch for strangers. The trail was deserted and not a car had been parked in the enclosure near the road.
Without meeting a single person they came presently to the caretaker’s stone hut.
“Let’s stop here a minute,” Connie suggested. “Maybe the superintendent can tell us who has been in the park today.”