“Won’t take him long—if he does it,” said Kitty. “Don’t believe he will, though. He’s eaten too much lunch. It follows.”
“If we went down on the ground we could see him,” suggested Rodney. But Matty, who was clearing up the débris of the feast, demurred.
“I couldn’t watch him, Rodney. I—I’d scream!”
“I do wish he’d come back,” sighed May.
“Ten minutes,” prophesied Kitty calmly.
“Well, we’ll get ready to start along,” said Rodney, “so we won’t waste time when he does get down. It would be a funny note though if he got up there and couldn’t climb down again!”
“I don’t think it would be funny at all,” responded Matty severely. “It would be perfectly horrible.”
“Anyway, it would sort of delay the game,” agreed Rodney. “Listen! Did you hear anything?”
The twins shook their heads.
“Did you, Kitty?”