Soon the girls came to the dirt road which turned off toward the pond.
Vevi and Connie paused, uncertain which way to go.
“I think we keep on walking straight down the highway,” Connie decided at last.
“Don’t you know?” demanded Jane, who had overheard. “I’m not sure,” Connie admitted. “In the fog, we couldn’t tell where we were walking.”
She and Vevi went on, looking hard along both sides of the road. Tall trees loomed as far ahead as they could see.
“We may as well turn back,” Jane said impatiently. “I guess this proves who was right.”
“We haven’t walked far yet,” Miss Gordon remarked. “Besides, I think I see something that looks like a house set back among the trees on the left hand side of the road.”
“That’s it!” cried Vevi. “The little ship house!”
The Brownies hadn’t believed that the cottage could be real. Now that they saw it was, they became very excited.
With Vevi and Connie leading the way, they all started to run up the gravel path. Miss Gordon and Mrs. Williams were hard pressed to keep up with the girls.