“No! No!” Hanny called after her. “We must not trespass.”
Vevi did not climb over the fence. But she crawled high up on it so she could see far down the canal.
“I don’t see the shoe anywhere,” she said, and then she corrected herself. “Oh, yes, I do!”
“Where?” cried Hanny.
“It has snagged on a pile of sticks there where the canal turns a bit!”
Hanny climbed up on the fence beside Vevi. She too saw the runaway shoe.
“I’ll run and get it,” Vevi offered. She was not afraid to cross the Mattox land.
“No, no!” Hanny said in earnest protest. “Uncle Peter has told me that I must never set foot on their property. They are so very unpleasant.”
“Then how will we get the shoe?” Vevi demanded.
Hanny thought hard for a second and then had an idea.