“No.”
“Do you think we should warn her? I can’t help thinking she’s going to break into the place.”
“If she is, she should be caught. If we think she is, perhaps we should notify the police.”
“The police? In such a place? You forget that we are many miles from the city and two or three miles from even a railroad station. Guess we’ll have to see it through.”
“Let’s do it then?”
The two girls rose and began making their way stealthily in the direction the child had taken.
Now and again they paused to listen. Once they heard a sound like the creaking of a door. Lucile caught a second flash of light.
They paused behind two pine trees not ten feet from the side entrance.
The wind rustled in the pine trees. The water broke ceaselessly on the shore. Otherwise all was silence.
“Creepy,” whispered Lucile.