“Maybe I will. And next time, I won’t come back! I’ll go so far my dad never will find me.”
Vevi was very troubled by the boy’s threat to leave home.
“Oh, Jamie, you mustn’t run away,” she said quickly. “Silver Beach is wonderful! I shouldn’t think you’d want to leave. Don’t you like your father?”
Jamie hung his head and didn’t answer the question. He dug the sand with the toe of his beach sandal.
“You wouldn’t like it here either, if you knew what I do,” he said finally.
Having spoken, he turned and ran off down the beach.
CHAPTER 8
HIGH TIDE
VEVI had hoped to return soon to Cabell’s pond to search for Clover.
However, she had no chance to do so the next day, for Miss Gordon told the Brownie Scouts they were to have an outing at Brant’s Point.