Miss Gordon righted the chairs and picked up the broken pieces of a cup.
“Those horrid boys must have done it!” Veve declared. “Oh, I wish we could catch them!”
From the shoe tracks on the floor, the girls were convinced that at least three persons had been in the invading group. Miss Gordon shared the opinion of the Brownies that the same boys who had mixed up the trail signs were responsible for the disorder.
“Fortunately, the house itself hasn’t been damaged,” she said to encourage the girls. “We can clean up this litter.”
“Yes, but unless we catch those boys, they’ll come again and do the same thing!” Connie declared.
“They might,” the Brownie Scout leader admitted.
“If only we’d had a good lock on the door, this never could have happened,” remarked Veve. “Oh, let’s all wish again very hard for one!”
Connie had been glancing carefully about the room to see if anything were missing.
“The cushion for the window seat is gone!” she exclaimed.
The girls could find it nowhere in the little house. Nothing else appeared to be missing. However, before the room could be used, every dish would have to be washed.