Five Go to Mystery Moor by Enid Blyton

circled and made off"
    „Where would it have come from?" said Dick. „From the coast, I suppose, from over the sea, do you think?"
    „I simply don"t know," said Julian. „It beats me! And why should the gypsies have anything to do with it? Gypsies and planes don"t seem to mix, somehow."
    „Well, we don"t know that they do have anything to do with the plane, except that we saw that glow," said Dick. „And that"s going now, look."
    Even as they watched, the bright glow died completely away. Now the moor lay in darkness again.
    „Funny," said Julian, scratching his head. „I can"t make it out. It"s true that the gypsies may be up to something, the way they come out here secretly, apparently for no purpose at all, and also they don"t want us snooping round, that"s clear."
    „I think we"d better try and find out what that glow is," said Dick. „We could have a bit of a snoop tomorrow. Or perhaps Sniffer could tell us."
    „He might," said Julian. „We"ll try him. Come on, let"s get back into the quarry. It"s cold out here!"
    The quarry struck quite warm to them as they went down into it. The girls were sound asleep stil . Timmy, who had been with them, did not wake them. He had been as puzzled as Julian and Dick over the low-flying plane, but he had not barked at all. Julian had been glad about that, Timmy"s bark might have carried right over to the gypsy camp and warned it that someone was camping near.
    They got back under their rug, keeping close to one another for warmth. But they soon lost their shivers, and Dick threw off his share of the rug. In a few minutes they were asleep.
    Timmy awoke first and stretched himself out in the warm morning sunshine. Anne sat up with a little scream. „Oh Timmy, don"t! You nearly squashed me to bits. Do that to George if you must stretch yourself all over somebody!"
    The boys awoke then, and went to the spring to splash their faces and bring back a jugful of water to drink. Anne got the breakfast, and over it the boys told the girls of the aeroplane in the night.
    „How queer!" said Anne. „And that glow too. It must have been a guide of some sort to the plane. Let"s go and see where it was. It must have been a fire of some kind!"

    „Right," said Dick. „I vote we go this morning, but we"ll take Tim with us in case we meet those gypsies!"

Chapter Fourteen
THE GYPSIES ARE NOT PLEASED

    Julian and Dick went to stand where they had stood the night before, trying to see exactly in what direction the glow had been.
    „I think it was beyond the gypsies" camp, to the left," said Julian. „What do you think, Dick?"
    „Yes. That"s about it," said Dick. „Shall we go now?" He raised his voice. „We"re going, George and Anne. Are you coming? We can leave our stuff here, tucked away in the caves because we shan"t be very long."
    George cal ed back. „Julian, I think Timmy"s got a thorn in his foot or something. He"s limping. Anne and I think we"ll stay here with him and try to get it out. You go, but for goodness" sake don"t get into trouble with the gypsies!"
    „We shan"t," said Julian. „We"ve as much right on this moor as they have and they know it.
    Al right, we"ll leave you two here then with Timmy. Sure you don"t want any help with his paw?"
    „Oh no," said George. „I can manage, thank you."
    The two boys went off, leaving Anne and George fussing over Timmy"s paw. He had leapt into a gorse bush after a rabbit and a thorn had gone right into his left fore-paw. Then it had broken off, leaving the point in poor Timmy"s pad. No wonder he limped! George was going to have quite a time trying to ease out the bit of thorn.
    Julian and Dick set off over the moor. It was a day like summer, far too warm for April.
    There was not a single cloud to be seen in the sky, which was as blue as forget-me-nots.
    The boys felt too hot in their pul overs and longed to take them off. But that would mean carrying them, which would be an awful nuisance.
    The gypsy camp was not real y far away.