At first there were muffled growls of thunder from Harry Corwin.

Then came claps from Wink Wheeler.

After that the elements raged about Perry's defenceless head, even "Brownie" supplying some fine lightning effects! Perry gathered in the course of the uncomplimentary remarks directed toward him that the crowd, being unable to find the dingey where they believed they had left it, had spent some twenty minutes searching up and down the beach, that subsequently they had waited there in the fog for a good forty minutes more and that eventually Perry Bush would sooner or later come to some perfectly deplorable end and that for their part they didn't care how soon it might be.

By the time the _Follow Me_ was reached Perry was too worn out to offer any excuse.

Cas, however, did it for him, and, as the others' tempers had somewhat sobered by then amusement succeeded anger.