“Perhaps we should start back to the cottages,” she suggested.
As the girls began to gather up their belongings, Miss Gordon noticed Vevi’s absence.
“Now where has she gone?” she inquired. “She was here only a moment ago.”
“She went off so she wouldn’t have to give her bird report,” Jane declared. “I see her wandering around over there behind the lighthouse.”
“I’ll go after her,” offered Connie.
“Call to her instead,” advised Mrs. Williams. “We really have no time to waste.”
Connie shouted Vevi’s name several times. “Hurry up!” she yelled. “The tide is rolling in, and we want to start home.”
“Coming,” Vevi answered.
Despite the urging to hurry however, she kept loitering by a large sand dune. She seemed to be examining something she had found there.
“That old slow poke!” Jane exclaimed. “I’ll get her!”