The voices were down on the shore.

Gary moved his position to look.
"It's that child--what under the sun is she doing! I beg pardon for naming anything warm just now, Drummond--but she is building fortifications of some sort, down there." Capt.

Drummond came forward too.

Down below them, a little to the right, where a tiny bend in the shore made a spot of shade, Daisy was crouching on the ground apparently very busy.

Back of her a few paces was her dark attendant, June.
"There's energy," said Gary.