"We couldn't help it," she said presently. "They just wouldn't bring us back. Isn't there some other way?"
"I've thought of a possible one. I'll make a little try-out. Be back in an hour."
Phi was off like a flash. A few minutes later the girls thought they heard him calling old Rover, who had been left in his care.
"Wonder what he wants of him?" said Lucile.
"I don't know," said Marian. "But I do know I'm powerful hungry.
Let's go find something to eat."
CHAPTER X
FINDING THE TRAIL
"I think we can go." Phi smiled as he spoke. His hour for a try-out had expired. He was back.
"Can—can we cross the Straits?" Marian asked, breathless with emotion.
"I think so."