Brown; "or, as I said,
she may have wandered off in a delirium. In that case we must try to
find her. Again, she may not have been as badly hurt as you supposed,
and also she may have simulated an injury hoping she would get a chance
to escape unobserved. Was there anything strange about her?"
"Yes, there was," admitted Betty, slowly, and she gave the details of
the accident, how, most unexpectedly the girl had toppled from the
tree, the subsequent swerving of the auto, and how, several times, the
girl had murmured something about not going back to a certain man.
"Hum!" mused Dr. Brown, "it is rather odd, I must admit. What do you
suppose she was doing in the tree?"
"We haven't been able to guess," confessed Amy; "perhaps she climbed up
to avoid a dog--we have met several dogs to-day."
"It's possible," Dr. Brown commented.
"And the tree was an easy one to climb," spoke Mollie. "I am not a very
good climber, but that tree offered temptations."
The doctor smiled.
"Well, let us make a search," he proposed. "Is there any special place
where a girl, who might wish to escape observation for some unknown
reason, could hide around here, Mrs. Meckelburn?"
"There's the barn."
"Very good, we will search there, and we may be able to trace her
footprints. Please do not any of you walk under the window, nor in a
line from it until we have made some observations.
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