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They fleay finally

The next day the sa happened - and the next - and the next

But on the fourth day, so quite different occurred

The instant the , they carefully closed the

door and s of the Clubhouse, and then marched into the interior of

the island Close by the lake, there was a thick jungle of trees - a

place where the branchesa cleared space below The men crawled into this shelter on

their hands and knees for an eighth of a irls had followed this procession in an air-course that exactly

paralleled the trail When the ether in a chattering group, obviously astonished, obviously

irritated Hours went by Not a thing stirred in the jungle; not a sound

cairls hovered and floated, dipped, dove, flew along

the edge of the lake close to the water, tried by looking under the

trees, to get as going on It was useless Then they alighted on

the tree-tops and swung themselves down from branch to branch until they

were as near earth as they dared to coain it was useless In the end, flying and floating with the

disconsolate air of those who kill tile Then, again the girls took up the airy