Five on a Hike Together by Enid Blyton Page A

Water."
    „Saucy Jane," said Dick.
    „Sounds a sil y sort of clue," said Anne. „Do you suppose Maggie and Jane are both in the secret?"
    'Saucy Jane sounds more like a boat to me," said Dick.
    'Of course!" said George. „A boat! Why not? There"s a lake here, and I imagine that people don"t build a house beside a lake unless they want to go boating and bathing and fishing. I bet we shall find a boat called Saucy Jane tomorrow - and the stolen goods wil be inside it."
    „Too easy!" said Dick. „And not a very clever place either. Anyone could come across goods hidden in a boat. No - Saucy Jane is a clue, but we shan"t find the stolen goods in her. And remember, there"s that bit of paper as well It must have something to do with the hiding-place too, I should think."
    „Where is it?" asked Julian. „That wretched policeman! He tore it up. Have you stil got the pieces, Dick?"
    „Of course," said Dick. He fished in his pocket and brought them out. „Four little pieces!
    Anyone got some gummed paper?"
    Nobody had - but George produced a small roll of Elastoplast. Strips were cut and stuck behind the four portions of paper, Now it was whole again. They al examined it careful y.
    „Look - four lines drawn, meeting in the centre," said Julian. „At the outer end of each line there"s a word, so faintly written I can hardly read one of them. What"s this one? “Tock Hill.” And this next one is “Steeple”. Whatever are the others?"
    They made them out at last. „ “Chimney,” " said Anne. „That"s the third."
    „And “Tall Stone” is the fourth," said George. „Whatever do they all mean? We shall never, never find out!"
    „We"ll sleep on it," said Julian, cheerfully. „It"s wonderful what good ideas come in the night. It wil be a very interesting little problem to solve tomorrow!"

Chapter Thirteen
A NIGHT IN THE CELLAR

    The piece of paper was careful y folded and this time Julian took it for safe keeping. „I can"t imagine what it means, but it"s clearly important," he said. „We may quite suddenly come on something - or think of something - that wil give us a clue to what the words and the lines mean on the paper."
    „We mustn"t forget that dear Maggie has a copy of the paper too," said Dick. „She probably knows better than we do what it all means!"
    „If she does, she wil pay a visit to Two-Trees too," said Anne „We ought to keep a look-out for her. Should we have to hide if we saw her?"
    Julian considered this. „No," he said, „I certainly don"t think we should hide. Maggie can"t possibly guess that we have had the message from Nailer, and the paper too, We had better just say we are on a hike and found this place and thought we would shelter here.
    Al perfectly true."
    „And we can keep an eye on her, and see what she does if she comes!" said Dick, with a grin. „Won"t she be annoyed!"
    „She wouldn"t come alone," said Julian, thoughtfully.
    „I should think it quite likely that she would come with Dirty Dick! He didn"t get the message, but she did - and probably part of her message was the statement that Dirty Dick would know everything too. So she would get in touch with him."
    „Yes - and be surprised that he hadn"t got the message or the paper," said George, „Stil , they"d think that the escaped fel ow hadn"t been able to get to Dirty Dick."
    „Al very complicated," said Anne, yawning. „I can"t follow any more arguments and explanations - I"m half asleep. How long are you going to be before you settle down?"
    Dick yawned too. „I"m coming now," he said. „My bed of bracken and heather looks inviting. It"s not at all cold in here, is it?"
    „The only thing I don"t like is the thought of those cellars beyond this little underground room," said Anne. „I keep thinking that Maggie and her friends might be there, waiting to pounce on us when we are asleep.",
    „You"re sil y," said George, scornful y. „Real y sil y! Do you honestly suppose that Timmy would lie here quietly if