Kurt with Lux and his enterprising sister Clevi were at the extreme front.
When it became very still, Kurt turned around.
"Come along! Where are you all ?" he called back.
"We are coming," several voices answered from some children immediately behind him.

It was Max, Hans and Simi, and then Stoffi and Rudi behind them, but they were all.

Kurt halted.
"Where is the whole troup ?" asked Kurt.

"Let us wait till they catch up.
We must all stay together up there." But none followed.

All the answer Kurt got to his question was the screaching of an owl.
"Oh, they've gone, they were afraid," said Max.