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He was a happy man, and, in answer to a telegram sent him with this news, Mr. Ford returned word that he would come up and assist at the "last act in the lumber play," as Will called it. Accompanied by a court officer, and with Allen Washburn as consulting attorney, Grace's father reached the camp one evening. "Do you think you can stand it to face Jallow to-morrow, Paddy?" he asked.
Only if you should happen to run across that Paddy Malone up there that old lumberman hold on to him, or at least get him to communicate with me. With his testimony I can beat this Jallow." "I hope we can find him," observed Grace. There were seemingly a hundred and one things to do before starting off for camp, but somehow they got done.
Betty fairly lived aboard her new boat, her mother complained, but the Little Captain was not selfish she invited many of her friends and acquaintances to take short trips with her. Among the girls she asked were Alice Jallow and Kittie Rossmore, the two who had acted rather meanly toward our friends just prior to the walking trip.
Betty heard the sound of Amy's sigh, and then the catch in her breath. She turned quickly. "Amy!" cried Betty. "Did you see it? Oh, my dear! The meanness of it! The awful meanness! Oh, Amy, my dear!" and she put her arms around her trembling companion. "Oh, if I only knew who sent it!" "I I can guess!" faltered Amy. "Who?" "Alice Jallow." "The the cat!" Betty simply could not help saying it.
"And I am trying to do that," said Amy, bravely. Together the four girls came out of the school. Most of the other pupils had gone home, for vacation days were near, and study hours were shortened on account of examinations. "There she is now," said Mollie, as they turned a corner. "Who?" questioned Betty. "That Jallow girl and her familiar Kittie. Her name is too good for her."
Ford had sold out his interests to strangers who were going to do harm to Jallow and his friends. "Not knowing any different, I believed him. He said the courts would not give him justice and he was going to take it himself, and I had small blame for him for doing that. I'd do the same. But mind you," Paddy insisted, "I did not know I was doing my friend James Ford any harm.
"Alice Jallow and her friend, Kitty Rossmore. They're always together," Betty answered, then added: "By the way, Mollie, it seems to me you were just saying you had something good to tell." "My aunt has a bungalow out on Pine Island. It's a lovely place, the bungalow, I mean, not the island, although if all they say is true, I shouldn't wonder if that's all right too."
Then I knew I had been fooled, but still I didn't know what to do, for I was afraid of arrest, and I never could stand jail, when I knew I hadn't really meant any wrong. "I saw Jallow again, but he only laughed at me, and give me a little money to get out of the country. But I didn't go then, and I'm not going now. I'm going to see justice done!"
They had not gone very far in the ice boat before they heard the approach of another behind them, and soon, to their surprise, they saw in the craft that was rapidly overcoming them Alice Jallow, and her three young friends. As they came up Jake Rossmore called patronizingly: "Want a race?" "Sure," answered Allen, nothing loath, for he had faith in his craft.
There was a titter from Alice Jallow, in which Kittie Rossmore joined. Poor Amy looked distressed. Tears came into her eyes. There shot across the black heavens a vivid flash of lightning, and a bursting crash so promptly came echoing that nearly every one of the girls started from her desk, and a number screamed, while even the boys were startled.
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