Kiddo Green – Three Pearls: Pg 20 What Happened

Finding nothing, he looked up at Gertrude's stricken face. The yard was quiet as a tomb.
“Where is she?” He asked, looking around.
Confused, Gertrude looked up at the branches above. She glanced at Ray then murmured to herself,
“I guess I’m stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. Well, there’s no help for it.”
She slowly stood and walked over to a particularly thick bush.
“What happened?” She demanded from the bush.