The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge

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Mollie herself at the wheel, were at the present moment rushing wi

son and Amy Blackford "sprawled," to use Mollie's sarcastic

k in your life," said Mollie, with a disapproving g

returned quiet

led her feet still more comfortably on the foot rail. "Why s

hall have to change places with you, Betty. It's far too exciting up here with Moll

he great car responded with an eager purring, "did any one ever give us the mistaken titl

commented Grace lazily. "Have s

rture the young driver responded with so indignant a stare that Grace quic

idn't mean to do it

er eyes once more on the road ahead, "I've eaten so many chocolates this we

uffers," retorted Grace, ruefully,

raight and regarding delightedly a vista of flying hills and woodland green

s. "If you weren't too lazy to notice anything, Betty Nelson, you would see t

eye up at the sky. "It's only one teeny little cloud anywa

he joyful challenge in Betty's words, but Mollie, with a perversenes

g home?" she asked. "No

ntly. "What do you mean--guessi

lie responded dryly. "But that doesn't say

quiet happiness in her face that made Betty hug her impulsiv

breakneck speed down a long hill without the thought of using a brake. A brake to Mollie meant something to

y that the girls in the tonneau chuckled

ced into a hole in the road and out again, fairly jouncing the breath from the gi

arkly, as the car skidded around another precipitous turn and t

d Amy, quietly returning to the subject. "And when they do come we

ntedly on a chocolate. "Something that will mak

home object to any sort of fuss being made over them. They seem to want to forget everything that ha

wouldn't try to force confidences from the boys and would try to keep all thought of the awful t

opes of a good time, Amy. When the boys come home all we shall be allo

n that," said Betty, with a light laugh,

ickedly. "Before we know it she will be sighing

-at Betty who could not for the life of her

aid hastily, at which the g

fondly about her chum. "I guess we will all

l the time," said Grace unexpectedly. "Because I really have some share in him mysel

oken of the three pictures which Will Ford had kept under his pillow during his long convalescence in one of the army hospitals over there. These readers may also remember that

the other two boys who made up the quartette of the gir

sigh: "Try as we can, Amy and I never know quite how to pair you four off. We can't

and challenged a steep grade. "Grace and I believe in scattering our favors--as 'twer

rumbled to the top of the steep grade. "Look out, Mollie!" she added suddenly, indicating a big pi

such suddenness that the girls were all but thrown out o

eir poise when they were star

y's arm in a grip that hurt, "look at that t

s. Slowly, its descent retarded somewhat by the branches of other trees, a towering giant of th