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Nobody said anything. Lucy-Ann looked really alarmed. No David! No donkeys! What were they going to do?

Jack put his arm round her as she came and sat down beside him. "It's all right! We've been in worse fixes than this! At the worst it only means a few days here, because as soon as he gets back to the farm, Bill will come and look for us."

"Good thing we unloaded the donkeys and have got plenty of food," said Philip. "And our tents and sleeping-bags. Blow David! He's a coward."

"I wonder what he saw to make him gallop off like that," said Jack. "All I could make out was 'Black, black, black!' "

"Black what?" asked Dinah.

"Black nothing. Just black," said Jack. "Let's go down to the place where he got his fright and see if we can see anything."

"Oh no!" said the girls at once.

"Well, I'll go, and Philip can stay here with you," said Jack, and off he went. The others watched him, holding their breath. He peered all round and then turned and shook his head and shouted.

"Nothing here! Not a thing to see! David must have been seeing things! His bad night upset him."

He came back. "But what about those animals in the night?" said Philip, after a pause. "Those wolves. We both saw those. They seemed real enough!"

Yes — what about those wolves!





Chapter 11

A STRANGE HAPPENING



IT wasn't long before Dinah suggested having something to eat, and went to the big panniers that had been unloaded from the donkeys the night before. She pulled out some tins, thinking that it would be a change to have sardines, and tinned peaches, or something like that. Anything to take their minds off David's flight, and the disappearance of the donkeys!

They sat down rather silently. Lucy-Ann kept very close to the boys. What with wolves and David's fright she felt very scared herself!

"I hope this won't turn into one of our adventures," she kept saying to herself. "They always happen so suddenly."

Snowy the kid bounded up to Philip and knocked a tin flying from his hand. He nuzzled affectionately against him and then butted him. Philip rubbed the furry little nose and then pushed the kid away.

"I'm glad you didn't go off with the donkeys too!" he said. "I've got used to having you around now, you funny aggravating little thing. Take your nose out of that tin! Lucy-Ann, push him off — he'll eat everything we've got!"

Kiki suddenly flew at Snowy, screaming with rage. She had had her eye on that tin of sliced peaches, and to see Snowy nosing round it was too much for her. She gave him a sharp peck on his nose, and he ran to Philip, bleating. Everyone laughed and felt better.

They sat there, eating by the tents, occasionally glancing up at the mountain that towered so steeply above them. It had no gentle slope up to the summit, as most of the mountains around had, but was steep and forbidding.

"I don't much like this mountain," said Lucy-Ann.

"Why?" asked Dinah.