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soon as they get here!" said George, delighted. Her face shone. Ah - the Five would be together again. How wonderful!
    „Leave me directions to give them so that they can find you," said her mother. „Then you can al come back - together. The boys can help to carry everything."
    What fun, what fun! Julian and Dick again, now things would be exciting, things would happen, as they always did. What FUN!

Chapter Six
STORM IN THE NIGHT

    It was fun to go back to their little camping-place again. It was growing dark, as they had stayed to have a good meal at Kirrin Cottage, and Timmy had eaten a most enormous plate of meat, vegetables and gravy. Then he had sat down and sighed as if to say „That was jolly good! I could do with some more!"
    However, nobody took any notice of this, so he trotted off to have a good look round the garden to make sure it was just the same as when he had left it a day or two before. Then it was time to start back to the camping-place, and Timmy heard George"s whistle.
    „Well, nobody laughed at Timmy this evening!" said Anne. „Not even your father!"
    „Oh, I expect Mother had told him not to," said George. „Anyway, I said I would stay away til Tim"s ear is better, and I mean to."
    „Well, I"m quite wil ing," said Anne. „The only thing I"m a bit worried about is - do you suppose there wil be anyone snooping about in that old cottage again!"
    „You dreamed it all!" said George. „You admitted you did!"
    „Well, yes, I did wonder if I had dreamed it," said Anne, as they walked up the long Carters Lane to the moor. „But now that it wil soon be dark, I"m beginning to think I didn"t dream it - and it isn"t a very nice feeling."
    „Oh, don"t be sil y!" said George impatiently. „You can"t chop and change about like that.
    Anyway, we"ve got Timmy - no one would dare to upset Timmy! Would they, Tim?"
    But Timmy was ahead, hoping against hope that he might for once in a way catch a rabbit. There were so many about on the common at this time of the evening, peeping at him here, making fun of him there, and showing their little white bobtails as soon as he moved in their direction.
    The two girls got safely back to their camp. The tent was stil up, their heather-bed out in the open, covered with the old rug. They put down their loads thankfully, and went to the little spring for a drink.
    George yawned. „I"m tired. Let"s get to bed at once, shall we? Or wait - perhaps it would be a good idea to have a look in at that cottage to make sure no one is there to disturb us tonight."
    „Oh no - I don"t want to look," said Anne. „It"s getting dark now."
    „Al right - I"l go with Timmy," said George, and off she went. She came back in about five minutes, her little torch shining in front of her, for it was now almost dark.
    „Nothing to report," she said. „Nothing whatever - except one bat flying round that big room. Timmy nearly went mad when it flew down and almost touched his nose."
    „Oh. That"s when he barked, I suppose," said Anne, who was now curled up on the heather-bed. „I heard him. Come on, George - I"m sleepy."
    „I must just look at Timmy"s ear once more," said George and shone her torch on it.
    „Well, buck up, then," said Anne. „That"s about the thousandth time today you"ve examined it."
    „It does seem much better," said George, and she patted Timmy. „I shall be glad when I can take this awful col ar off him. I"m sure he hates it."
    „I don"t believe he even notices it now," said Anne. „George, are you coming or not? I real y can"t keep awake one minute more."
    „I"m coming," said George. „No, Tim - you are not sleeping on our bed. I told you that last night. There"s hardly enough room for Anne and me."

    She climbed carefully on to the heather-bed, and lay looking up at the twinkling stars. „I feel happy tonight," she said, „because Julian and Dick are coming. I was down in the dumps when I thought they might not be coming at al these hols. When do you suppose