At noon the Brownies ate their luncheon as quickly as possible. Veve went to the spring, hoping to see the little Mexican boy again. He was not there, but as she bent down for a cool drink, she saw something bright and shining lying in the mud.
It was the missing Brownie pin!
“And Jane was so sure someone took it!” Veve chuckled, washing the emblem under the stream of water. “Wait until she hears about this!”
Racing back to the orchard, she gave the pin to Jane.
“Well, can you beat that!” the other girl exclaimed. “I remember now, I went to the spring a couple of hours ago. I guess the pin must have slipped off my jeans and I didn’t notice.”
“You see how unfair it is to accuse anyone when you aren’t sure,” added Rosemary severely.
“I didn’t accuse any one person,” Jane defended herself. “I just said it might have been someone. Anyway, our quilt still is missing!”
With lunch finished, Veve planned to get busy on the old trunk.
Before she could do so, however, Miss Gordon called the Brownies together.