They looked around the
corner of the tent and saw Janet still playing with Trouble. He had
gotten over crying for his blue stones, and was now busy making a
play-house of the rocks and pebbles his brother and sister had used.
"Come on, Janet! We're going!" called Ted in a loud whisper, as his
sister looked at him. He also made motions with his hands to show that
he and Hal were ready to start for the cave.
Janet saw that her little brother was too busy playing to need her to
stay with him--at least for a time. Still she could not leave him
alone without calling her mother or Nora to watch what he did.
Very quietly, while Baby William was trying to make one stone stay on
top of another in one side of the castle he was making, Janet stepped
up to the flap of the tent, inside which her mother was sitting
sewing.
"I'm going with Ted and Hal into the woods," said the little girl.
"Will you watch Trouble, Mother?"
"Yes, Janet. But be careful, and don't go too far."
Janet did not answer but hurried away. Of course she did not do just
right, for she knew her mother would not want her to go to the cave,
nor would Mrs. Martin have let Ted and Hal go had she known it. But
the Curlytops and Hal were very desirous of finding the blue stones
and of seeing if there was any gold in them, and they did not stop to
think of what was right and what was wrong.
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