"Yes," she whispered, and laid her face against his sleeve.
"Now we will go back," he said presently, and with Belinda and Becky in close attendance, they went up the hill together.
At the top Judy gave a cry of astonishment, for right in front of her, on the other side of the hill, was the little gray house, ablaze with light.
"And I have been right back of it all night. If I had just walked a few steps farther," exclaimed Judy. "I must have gone in a circle, and I thought I was miles from here—"
As they came to the door the little grandmother met them, and Anne, and in the background Tommy Tolliver.
"We didn't know you were lost," explained Anne as she received the returned wanderer in her arms, "until we got back from Lake Limpid. Grandmother thought you had joined us down the road, and we thought you had stayed at home, and the Judge, of course, thought you were with me, and so none of us worried until we came back to-night and found you had been gone all day."
"And then Tommy told us that you had gone to the gipsy camp," went on
Anne.
At Judy's reproachful glance Tommy burst out:
"I couldn't help telling, Judy. Launcelot made me."
"I should say I did," said a voice from the doorway, and Launcelot came in with Dr. Grennell. "I was sure he knew something about it."