The walls fairly rocked as the girls warbled:
“We’re the Brownies, here’s our aim,
Lend a hand and play the game!”
Everyone plied Vevi and Connie with questions about their adventure in the fog. They tried very hard to describe the strange little house they had discovered beside the road.
“I never heard of a house built like a ship!” exclaimed Rosemary in awe.
“You say no one appeared to be living there, and yet the door was open!” added Jane.
“And a boy ran out while you were there!” commented Sunny Davidson. “Maybe you imagined it.”
Vevi and Connie became indignant at such a suggestion.
“We did not imagine it!” they declared together. “The captain was real enough, wasn’t he?”
“Oh, he was real,” Jane agreed with a shrug. “But he didn’t say anything about a little ship house. Fog, they say, gives rise to strange fancies.”