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"Look they seem to be having trouble," remarked Betty, pointing to the overturned ice boat with one hand, while with the other she tried to get her rebellious hair in some sort of order. Her locks had become loosed as had those of her chums in the spill. The youth who had been responsible for the accident was standing near Alice, seemingly ill at ease. Alice Jallow appeared to be crying.
Amy had taken no part in the talk, and Will, sensing her feelings, took her arm and led her along the path, pretending to show her some curious moss formation on the trees. "Where are you staying?" went on Mrs. Jallow.
"Oh, don't make any more trouble, Will," begged his sister. "We seem to be on the outs enough with the Jallow family. I only hope we don't meet Mr. Jallow up in the woods." "He wouldn't dare annoy you," spoke Allen. "I know something about your father's case, and I think, when it is next tried, that Jallow will lose. He deserves to, I think, and I have gone over most of the evidence."
"That's the way to make them warm," and he got back out of the way in time to avoid having his own ears soundly boxed. Slowly the young people skated back. There were a number of others on the ice now, and soon our friends were in the midst of quite a throng. "Here come Alice Jallow and Kittie Rossmore," murmured Mollie. "I hope they don't tag along after us." "They're likely to," said Grace.
Jallow sent me to tell you." "Well, you tell Mr. Jallow to come here himself. We want to see him." The man hesitated a minute and then set off on the run. "Here comes Jallow now," observed Will. "Oh, I hope there won't be any trouble," murmured Amy. "Don't worry," said Mr. Blackford, who sat beside her. "Here, what do you want?" blustered Mr. Jallow, as he came up. "Oh, it's you; is it, Ford?
Will was peering about, and, as the party made ready to start for the cabins, the lumbermen going back to their fishing, Grace's brother said: "Unless I'm mistaken this trap is on dad's land, which means that that Jallow crowd must have trespassed here to set it. Take a look, Allen, and see if the boundary line doesn't bring the trap on this side." "It certainly does," declared the young lawyer.
"You know you said your father told you about his beginning to cut timber and " "Oh, we needn't worry about that," declared Grace with confidence. "The strip in dispute is far enough from the camp." "Isn't it mean to have even that little worry, when it seemed as if everything was going to be so nice?" murmured Mollie. "And that Alice Jallow!
They did not call on their rivals, though Mrs. Jallow, meeting the girls once or twice, pressed them to come. "But she just wants to ask us questions about father's business," decided Grace. "We'll not go." And they did not, for it would have been embarrassing for poor Amy.
"I'm sorry about the trouble you had with Hank Smither," went on Alice's mother. "Hank Smither?" questioned Mollie. "Yes. He's one of Mr. Jallow's men, you know. He ordered you off, the other day. But you must excuse him. He was only carrying out our orders, and I've no doubt Mr. Jallow will be glad to let you come over and see us." "Oh, Mr. Smither didn't annoy us," said Grace easily.
Thus remarked Alice Jallow to Kittie Rossmore a few days after the formation of the Camping and Tramping Club. The question and comments took place in the court of the High School, just before the bell was to ring for the morning session. "It's all Betty Nelson's doings," declared Alice, who had often tried to make herself more intimate with the quartette of friends, but unsuccessfully.
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