CHAPTER 15REUNION
It will now be understood why Worrals could not find the entrance to the cave. That in itself was bad enough, but von Brandisch’s horrible cough was the last straw. She thought—as far as she was capable of thinking at that moment—that she ought to have been prepared for such an emergency, for she had never entertained any doubts about his return. In the ordinary way she would not have been surprised; it was the time, the place, and the absence of Frecks, coming on top of the shock of being unable to find the cave, that was so unnerving. It was apparent that something had happened in her absence, but what it was she had no means of knowing. Had the others been captured? It looked like it, for had they been at liberty surely one of them would have been there to meet her, f
