Both wanted to get to where Sam and the girls had been left, but this was impossible for quite a while, and then, much to their surprise, they found their brother and the others had gone, and Minnie Sanderson had departed also.
"Wonder where they went to ?" questioned Tom.

"I told Sam we'd be along as soon as possible." To this Dick did not answer.

He was thinking deeply.

Was Dora still angry, in spite of how she had cheered him?
"There they are!" cried Tom a few minutes later, as he and Dick walked toward the river.

He had seen Nellie and Grace on a bench in the sun, surrounded by a number of other visitors.