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her. Now he understood what she meant about

            having problems being the leader. It just

            wasn’t fair, Jay thought. Ella was a good

            leader.

               “You’re going to have to get them all back

            together,” he suggested.

               “I know that!” Ella replied.

               Within minutes they’d gathered at the

            spring. They hadn’t found Flick.

               Rosie was distraught. She was searching

            through the bushes and shouting her

            daughter’s name.

               “She’s not here,” Binny said calmly.

               “Stop this!” Ella ordered. “Stop this running

            about and listen!”

               But the Pioneers weren’t listening. Amongst

            the chaos of the searching Jay thought he

            heard a different noise. It was the clunk of


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