CHAPTER XXXIII 



PHILIP FINDS FLOWERS BUT NO GIRL 



The day after we had been to Great Rock, 

 Philip started out to find the strange girl. He 

 said he knew her hair hung straight down by her 

 face, Tommy had said so often enough ; he wanted 

 to see the color of her eyes and to hear how she 

 talked. Besides, Philip was disappointed that he 

 had not seen her In the clover field when he had 

 looked straight in front of him where Grand- 

 mother pointed. 



When Philip left Warley Towers he was alone, 

 and he counted on his fingers: " Strange girl was 

 seen first in Secret Valley ; seen again in Dogwood 

 near Old Adam; seen again with Meadow Lilies, 

 and last of all in clover field." 



It was very hard for Philip to know which way 

 to turn, for each of the places where she had been 

 seen was in a different direction. Perhaps she 

 goes where the wind blows her, he thought. He 

 put his head up toward the sky and felt that the 

 wind this morning was from the northwest, so he 

 turned that way and it led him out by the old chest- 

 nut-tree, where the view from the hill is beautiful. 

 Twice he had to cross the stream. Most of the 

 way he was whittling a stick, and making calls to 

 the birds, and looking over the fields as far as his 

 eyes could see. 



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