The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge

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o move a muscle. Then suddenly Grace seemed galvanized to action. She leaned

e, get out of the way! St

, tight-lipped. "Something

her senses and had scrambled out of the car

e you crazy?" she shouted w

oad, but Mollie still fussed with brakes and le

ted," she muttered over and over to herse

Captain. "Jump, or I'll come after

nward plunge by some particularly heavy foliage and branches, but the girls could see that it was

a vain and foolish attempt to save her

wild attempt to drag her chum from the car when su

the toppling tree, even now tearing itself loose from the impeding branches, another at the machine with the

in the middle of the road. A moment later he had thrown himself with all his mig

a down grade or they never could have managed it. As it was, there was just time to get out of the way when the great tree came crashing

tempt at a laugh, "I guess we've never in our l

aken to introduce the Outdoor Girls to those readers who have not yet met them and also to review briefly

r knowing just the right thing to do at just the right moment, was eighteen, dark-haired and dark-eyed. She had a fund of vitality an

father, James Ford, was a lawyer, and her mother, Mrs. Margaret Ford, a rather dressy lady who spent a good deal of her time at clubs, was quite a figure in the society of Deepdale. Ho

d Betty were alike in their splendid vigor and vitality. Mollie, or "Billy" as she was sometimes called by her chums, had a very lovely widowed mother and an extremely mischievous young bro

cleared up, and it may have been this mystery that caused the girls to treat her with a little more consideration and gentle

y much interested in Betty, and in whom Betty was very much interested; Will Ford, Grace's brother, who had carried Amy Blackford's picture all through the war; F

camping and tramping tour, tramping for miles over th

camp, in Florida, at Ocean View, then at Pine Island where the girl

e boys responded eagerly to the bugle call, and the girls, too, were eager for Army service and finally went to a hostess house at Ca

led "The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point" the girls

spend it at a romantic spot near the ocean called Bluff Point. The cottage on the bluff had been loaned to the girls by Grace's patriotic Aunt Mary, who declared that

e everything was at its blackest, Betty read Allen Washburn's name among the missing. However, everything cleared up later when the twins, who had been kidnapped, were recovered and their kidnapper sent to justice. Still later Allen proved that the report tha

st regiments of soldiers had arrived from the other side and the

ion of waiting for something to happen when something had happened with a veng

g his hands fussily together and peering out of small, near-sighted eyes, first at the tree and then at the

h long sensitive hands and a very bald head, in the center of which a tuft of hair stood comically

he running board where she was still standing and held out her hand to the little man, thanking him in a voice that still trembled a little for the great service he ha

something happened that they had not bargained for. It began to rain

e car, but Mollie suddenly began to

caught in the rain, and I've even left the side