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She fanned herself with a filmy handkerchief. "But the surprise?" Mollie Billette reminded Betty. "I'm coming to it, my dear, but just let me get my breath. I didn't know I hurried so. Swing, Grace." With a daintily shod foot a foot slender and in keeping with her figure Grace gave rather a languid push, and set the hammock to swaying in wider arcs.
"If we go out in deep snow the skirt is sure to get wet, and then we could change on coming in." "Yes, I think that would be wise," admitted Mollie. "I am almost tempted to wear bloomers!" "Mollie Billette!" "I don't care," and she spoke defiantly. "More and more girls are coming to wear them. Why, if we wear them in the school gym. I don't see any harm in using them when we go camping."
When Mollie Billette got her touring car the girls saw no end of good times ahead of them, and their hopes were fully realized. The third volume, named "The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car; Or, The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley," involved the girls from the very start in a series of queer happenings. They could not discover, until the very end, why a certain girl fell out of a tree.
There was an irate uncle of one of the girls, none other than Frank Haley, and Allen as the brother of the other girl, who also demanded satisfaction, and the mix-up in the courtroom was most realistic. "About the funniest thing I ever saw in my life," was Mr. Nelson's comment. "They are certainly doing remarkably well," answered Mrs. Billette, who chanced to sit near by.
Then there came a crash that seemed to mark the height of the storm. A great light shone in front of Grace. Myriads of stars danced before her eyes. She flashed towards a house. From it ran two little tots, and, even in that terror she recognized them as Dodo and Paul, the two Billette twins. They were visiting a relative who lived on this road, she dimly recalled hearing Mollie say.
Oh, I wish I had known! We would have run all the way." "Oh, I suppose a few moments more or less would make no difference. It wouldn't bring back the silver," said Mrs. Billette, quietly. Hysterics had given place to a sort of despairing resignation. "Only, at first, I felt as if I must talk to some one about it. The twins didn't understand, of course, and I couldn't very well talk to Jane."
"No, she'll take a box home, and keep them in bed, under her pillow I know her," put in Mollie, alias Billy. "I slept with her one night and I wondered whether she had lumps of coal, or some kitchen kindling wood between the sheets. But it wasn't it was chocolates! The box had worked out from under her pillow in the night and " "Mollie Billette! You promised never to tell that!" pouted Grace.
"If if you ever dare say such a horrid thing to me again, Mollie Billette," she cried, half way between tears and anger, "I'll never, never forgive you! You you ought to know me better." And Mollie, heartily ashamed of herself, succeeded in placating the Little Captain only after having apologized most abjectly. Then one day something happened that amused them all mightily.
"Have any of the boys reached here yet?" asked Betty as she ran up the steps. "I was afraid we'd be late." "No, they haven't come," said Mollie, looking anxiously down the street; "and I'm so afraid they'll be late and miss the train, I don't know what to do. Do you suppose they could have forgotten?" "Mollie Billette," cried Betty, looking at her wonderingly, "what on earth "
"Now stop that!" commanded the Little Captain sharply. "You know it does no good to worry. Wait until you have some real facts to go on." "Yes, do," urged Mollie. "But he isn't your brother," said Grace in retort. "How would you like it, Mollie Billette, if Paul should be missing some day?" "Oh, I'd feel dreadful, of course.
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