CHAPTER XXXIV

FOUND Silence followed this, to the girls at least, momentous announcement. That is as much silence as was possible under the circumstances, with the noise of the storm reverberating through the forest. "Did--did you hear that?" gasped Sylvia, after a pause. "Of course," answered Hazel, and she spoke a bit sharply, as if her nerves were near the breaking point. "Was it--was it a voice?" Sylvia went on, as though she could not quite believe the evidence of her own ears. "Was it a voice, or one of those loons, or owl…