I was just starting to shout after the man when Hervey clapped his hand to my mouth and with his other hand he wrote the word QUITTER on the wooden sill and put a question-mark after it. By that time we were all crowding at the opening but none of us said a word. Hervey just pointed to what he had written and looked at us. None of us called after the man. There wasn’t any sound at all except the beams creaking when we moved.
It was good and spooky up there, I know that.
CHAPTER XXII
WE HEAR A VOICE
Hervey just held up his finger to remind us, but anyway the man had gone too far to hear us.
All of a sudden Pee-wee set up a shout, “I see Temple Camp! I see Temple Camp!”
“Where?” I asked him, all excited.
“I can see the pavilion!” he shouted. “I can see the lake! Hey, mister, come back with the ladder!”
“I guess you’re right,” Hervey said; “that’s the camp, all right.”
“I discovered it! I discovered it!” Pee-wee yelled. “Hey, mister, come back with that ladder! I can see Temple Camp! Come back!”
But it wasn’t any use; the man was too far away and the breeze was the other way, and there we were and we couldn’t do anything.