I'll go home, and leave a note for him." She put her hand in her pocket, and there was Harry's pencil, which she had borrowed in the morning and forgot to return, and also the piece of paper on which she had made her calculation of the cost of Aunt Matilda's board.

The back of this would do very well for a note.

So she wrote on it: I am going home, for it is getting late.

I shall go back by the same road we came.

Your sumac-bag is in the bushes between the tree and the creek.