“Look out!” Cara warned. “Yours is burning, Madge.”
Madge flung the charred marshmallow into the fire and abruptly arose. She slipped on her coat.
“Where are you going?” Cara demanded.
“Oh, just out to the garden. I want to satisfy my curiosity. I’ve had an uneasy feeling all evening.”
Cara laughed scoffingly but when she saw her friend was not to be dissuaded, she too arose. Miss Swenster reached for her shawl.
“We may as well all go,” she said. “I feel that fresh air would do me good too.”
They filed out the front way, Madge leading. She was the first to reach the garden. Uttering a cry of surprise and alarm, she ran to the sundial.
It lay upon its side and the pedestal had been split from the dial!
CHAPTER XV
The Secret in Stone
“I knew it! I knew it!” Madge exclaimed, gazing in dismay at the wreckage. “All evening I felt something like this was about to happen.”