They were running through the brush.

"Worth," she called, "don't go far.

Don't go out of sound." "No," he called back excitedly, "'tain't far." She was anxious, reproaching herself as absurd and rash, and was just attempting to ground the boat and follow when Queen came bounding back.
Then came Worth's voice: "Here 'tis! Here's Aunt Kate--waiting for you!" Next there emerged from the brush a flushed and triumphant little boy, and after him came a somewhat less flushed and less obviously triumphant man..