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"Are you the doctor?" asked Elfreda as he rode up and swung a hand to them. "Yes." "Where did you leave Lieutenant Wingate?" asked Grace. "About ten miles down the trail. I got here as quickly as possible. To be brief, we were attacked from ambush. The lieutenant's horse was shot from under him. We both began shooting, but he yelled to me, 'Go on, Doc. They need you at Thompson's.
"And to bed for mine," promised Elfreda. "If my eyes serve me right, you have no bed," answered Grace laughingly. "I don't understand," wondered Miss Briggs. "From its position, I should say that the fallen tree pretty well covers our camp," replied Grace. "Yes, it fell on the lean-tos," Tom informed them. The Overland girls groaned. "The voices of nature seem to be trying to tell us something.
"No, you're not, J. Elfreda," laughed Miriam, laying her hand on her friend's shoulder. "That's the way I feel, too. We can go to plenty of hops after we have each gone our separate way, but we can't have one another. Besides, what is anything in the way of amusement compared to a Semper reunion?" "Now you're talking," commended Emma, with an encouraging flourish of her hand.
Gray had walked on into the hall, so there was only one pair of eyes to see the sudden tightening of Tom's lips and the look of wistfulness which crept into his face, and that pair of eyes belonged to Elfreda. "He cares a whole lot more for Grace than she cares for him," was Elfreda's quick appraisal. "At heart, Grace is still a little girl, and will be for a long time to come.
"We must try to find out, too." As the merry little party tramped upstairs to their rooms, Grace felt a hand on her shoulder. "Do you really want to know who 'Peter Rabbit' was?" whispered Elfreda. "Yes," breathed Grace. "Then don't tell the girls. It was Kathleen." "Why didn't she unmask with the rest of us?" demanded Grace, as they reached the head of the stairs.
Lang, do you know of any person of the name of Steve Carver?" "No, Miss Briggs. May I have a look?" "Oh, pardon me," begged Elfreda, handing the map to the guide. Hi studied it for several minutes, then returned it. "It's not a picture of anything that I ever saw, I reckon," he said. "What shall we do with it?" asked Miss Briggs.
By the way, Grace, how is Mrs. Gray, the fairy godmother of Harlowe House?" "I've been so busy coaxing you to come and live with me, I forgot to tell you that she and I were down here in August, and who do you suppose we had as a visitor?" "Arline Thayer?" asked Emma. "No; but that wasn't a bad guess. J. Elfreda was with us." "Bless her!"
Gray, will you follow a short distance behind us, so that you may have all the wounded men under observation?" "Yes, Mr. Lang." "If you see a suspicious move from any of them, shoot!" "Yes, sir. Come along, Elfreda, your services probably will be needed. Mr. Lang, you were hit. May we not do something for you first?"
"How comfortingly definite. I'll see you again during the next hundred years," jeered Mabel. "You know I don't mean that," reproached Frances. "I do intend before the end, This happy couple shall meet again," chanted Elfreda as she peered into the lemonade pitcher. "Precisely," laughed Frances. "Did you play 'Needle's eye' when you were a little girl, Elfreda?"
Whoever is interested in us will surely find our trail leading into Forty-Mile Canyon and will follow it, but by the time they reach, say the second turning-off path, the canyon will be as dark as a dungeon. They will then either make camp for the night or turn back, believing that we are going all the way through the canyon." Elfreda nodded her appreciation of the guide's reasoning.
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