She promised that she would call again the following day and left the shop. Returning to the waterfront she looked about for a boatman to take her to The Flora.
“I hope I see that same man again,” she thought.
She passed by several boatmen who offered their services and even idled about the wharf for ten minutes, but caught no glimpse of the person she sought.
“He seems to have a way of vanishing when I’m looking for him,” she told herself. “Oh, well, if my suspicions concerning that jade pin are correct, I’ll go after him in earnest. I do wonder if he is deliberately avoiding me?”
For the present, she was forced to abandon the idea of finding him. She engaged another man who agreed to take her to The Flora for a nominal fee.
As they rowed for the yacht, her thoughts were chiefly concerned with the jade pin.
“I wonder what Mr. Dewitt will tell me when I go back tomorrow?” she mused. “I hope it will be something that will help Enid.”
CHAPTER X
Uninvited Visitors
Rex did not forget his promise to take Enid to her home at Bay City. Soon after breakfast the following morning, he swooped down out of the sky with his amphibian, landing a short distance from the yacht as the bay was very rough. The girls had one of the sailors take them out to the plane in the motor boat.
“The old bus is loaded with gas and rarin’ to go,” Rex declared, helping them into the cockpit.