Chapter 12 THE SECOND PIECE OF THE MAP
　　IT was true — the beautiful little carved ship was no longer in its place of honour on the shelf. It wasgone.
　　The four children stared at one another in exasperation¹. Blow Mr. Eppy! What right had he to"borrow" things like this? Would he give it back?
　　"What's he borrowed it for, anyway?" wondered Dinah. "If he goes so far as to suspect that we foundthe paper there, I still don't see why he should borrow it. He's got the paper, anyway!""A bit of it, only — and he knows it," corrected Jack². "He probably thinks the rest of it is still in thelittle carved ship — either that we haven't noticed it, or that we have kept it there. And he's borrowedit to see."
　　"Stolen it, you mean," said Lucy-Ann scornfully. "Horrid³ man! I think he's awful.""Shall I go and ask him if he's got it?" said Philip. He was feeling very angry — quite ready to beardany lion in its den⁴!
　　The others considered this. "Suppose he didn't take it?" said Jack. "It would be jolly awkward,accusing him of it."
　　"Who else would have taken it?" demanded Philip. "Nobody!""Look — let's go and have a swim in the pool and forget it for a bit," said Dinah. "If you still feel likebearding the lion afterwards, you can go. It's so awfully⁵ hot. I'd love a swim.""All right," said Philip reluctantly. "But I might not feel so keen on going after Mr. Eppy afterwards."However, he was still of the same mind after his swim. The others couldn't help admiring him —they really thought it was a brave thing to do, to go and tackle Mr. Eppy and accuse him of"borrowing" their ship!
　　He went off to find Mr. Eppy. He wasn't in his cabin. He wasn't in his deck-chair. Where could he be?
　　Philip began to hunt over the ship for him, determined⁶ to find him. He saw him at last coming out ofthe radio office.
　　"Mr. Eppy," said Philip, marching boldly up to him. "What have you done with our ship?"Mr. Eppy stopped. Philip wished to goodness he didn't wear those dark glasses. He had no idea if Mr.

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