The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge

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s they were too frightened or pe

ht of leaping overboard. But there they remained, staring wit

d in her body seemed to rush to her head, she simply sat there

with the sudden turn. At almost the same second, as though the thing had been p

nearer of the racing craft, and they were safe, with no harm done wi

Then a voice hailed them from the boat alongside. In a glance the girls

he girls: "Well, by all that's holy, if it isn't the Outdoor

d the wheel shaking nervously now that the danger was

latter had always treated him with a good-natured indifference not unmixed with contempt that had been very hard for the young dude to bear. During the years he

who had drawn his boat up close to them and was looking on with interest. "We will get you something to st

ly had a startlingly clear mental picture of what her father would think were some one to tell him t

entirely on his clothes; now he had become a sport, an

decided little shake of her hea

s though it were going to rain. Thank you just as much," and sh

ner of his eye he could see that his friend was laughing at him, "we would only k

even of that," said Mollie, coming sudde

s Betty was slowly but surely widening the distance b

ou some time. How ab

was sorry for Mollie's flippant speech, she said,

ed for home, conscious that her chums we

You are never going to let Percy F

and nervous and angry at herself for having anyth

e-eyed stare, and Mollie's grin. "And if you are going to ask me why I said so," she added desperately, "I'm

ct, for the present at least. For the time they had plenty to do a

were all tired and they were glad for once when the Gem

ock, "we surely did have some excitement, but w

the ribbon round her candy box and adj

" said Mollie ruefully. "I've just r

pping the wheel so hard and she felt it gingerly. "Mother said she would

hurrying her forward. "By any chance did you g

seemed to them in their pessimistic mood that everything they had tried to do that day had gone wrong. And the climax of it a

sideways at her chum and, curiosity getting the b

ll say," she said, "whe

as Betty very soon showed by

lconer after to-morrow, I think we had better forget about him. But there," she added, bringing herself up short and giving Mollie'

ll are--tired and hot, I mean. We will feel bet

ped nuts and cream cheese. Jubilantly the girls carried these delicacies

nce more like their cheerful, optimistic selves. They even began to laug

iniscently, as she patted the Little Captain's hand approvingly. "I'm sure I would have

race. "It would only make them nervous and they migh

are going to know anything

d Percy blabs it all o

t it from us than from any one else. Hello," she broke off, as her eye lighted on a newspaper lyin

"Allen's division, indeed. As though he

short by a startled e

. "Look at these names. Oh, I hop