Remember, we are equally interested."
"Well, but it's very strange that we can't locate that tree," said the
Little Captain, a troubled frown on her forehead. "Allen and I were so
particular about it yesterday."
"Well, we surely won't accomplish anything by standing here," said Will,
a shade impatiently. "Let's travel ahead a little--it seems to me it was
farther on."
So they started again, troubled and perplexed and scanning every step of
the way. Half an hour later they halted for another conference. The tree
was nowhere to be found--neither was the cave. It seemed as if their
adventure of the day before had been a dream which had faded and
vanished into thin air with the advent of the morning.
"Every place we look at seems to be it, and then it isn't," wailed Amy.
"That's fine English, I must say," Will teased. "Where did you go to
school?"
"Oh, for goodness' sake, let her English alone, Will!" Grace admonished.
"It isn't _that_ we're interested in just at present. Oh, where has the
old thing gone to?"
"I guess it never was," Roy replied gloomily. "We just imagined it.
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