Any person who could paddle like that was well worth looking out for.
Harriet rowed past the entrance to their retreat without having observed it.

But it was only a few moments later when she discovered her error.
She turned her boat more carefully this time, then rowed it into the secret waterway.

So quietly did she enter that her companions did not discover her until the nose of her rowboat bumped the scow.
There was a little scream, quickly suppressed by Miss Elting.
"Is that you, Harriet ?" she questioned, with no trace of alarm in her voice.
"Yes." "You were so quiet about it that you gave me the creeps," declared Margery.
"Did you find them, Harriet ?" asked Jane.
"Yes.

And they came near to finding me too.

They chased me nearly all the way home.