Won't it be funny to see them following that trail?
And what a surprise they will get before they have finished with this day's work." Harriet chuckled.

She had been whispering.

She paused suddenly as a pebble rattled down within a foot of the stern of the "Red Rover." "They're getting rather close," whispered Jane.
"Captain Baker kicked that pebble down.

He is going away.

Do you hear him ?" George was whistling to himself as he tramped away toward the other end of the island.