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They will believe me, and Quick! Hide in those bushes; someone is coming!" Bessie obeyed instantly. But, once she had hidden herself, she heard nothing. It was not for a minute or more after she had slipped into the bushes that she heard the sound that had disturbed Lolla. But then, looking out, she saw John coming down one of the paths, peering about him cautiously.
Her victory, brief though it might be, had encouraged her, and revived her drooping spirits. Dolly, too, seemed to have gained new life from the sight of the big gypsy quailing before her chum. She had stopped trembling, and stood up bravely now, ready to face whatever might come. "Good for you, Bessie!" she exclaimed. She darted a vicious look at Lolla.
John started, evidently surprised by Lolla's knowledge of what he had done, and said something, sharply, in the gypsy tongue, which Bessie, of course, could not understand. Her question, it was plain, had frightened, as well as startled him; but it had also made him very angry. Lolla, however, did not seem to mind his anger.
"If either of you come a step nearer I'll use it!" she said, scarcely able to recognize her own voice, so changed was it by the anger that Lolla's treachery had aroused in her. "You'd better not think I'm joking. I mean it!" Peter hesitated, but Lolla, her eyes flashing, urged him on. "Go on!
I will try to catch up with you and go with you, but do not wait for me." "I don't quite understand," Bessie began. But now Lolla was the general, brooking no defiance. She stamped her foot. "It does not matter whether you understand or not," she said sharply. "If you want me to save your friend and get back to the others you must do as you are told, and quickly. Now, come."
"That other girl, your friend. She wants my John. So " Bessie, serious as the situation was, could not help laughing. "Listen, Lolla," she said. "You mustn't think that. Dolly that's my friend thinks John is good looking, perhaps, but she hasn't even thought of marrying anyone yet, oh, for years. She's too young. We don't get married as early as you.
So he will be sorry for speaking angrily to you, soon, and you will be able to make him tell the truth, if you only try. Will you try?" "Yes," decided Lolla, suddenly. "I think you are good that you forgive us. Do you?" "I certainly do. After all, you see, Lolla, you haven't done us any harm." Lolla pointed to Bessie. "Will she forgive me?" she inquired.
An' I guess any white men anywhere would ha' done the same thing. "But if it was only us you'd had to depend on, I'm afraid the young lady'd still be out there. It was her friend that saved her. Too bad she trusted that Lolla witch. If she'd gone to Jim Skelly when she was near the gypsy camp that time, an' told him where her chum was, he'd have had her free in two shakes of a lamb's tail."
There ain't many men not even many of our men would try that, I can tell you. I thought perhaps you would try to do that, and I was coming around this way to get to the foot of the rocks and see if I could find out what had become of you." "You know where we are and how to get back, then?" asked Bessie. "Of course I do. I know all these woods." Lolla laughed.
"I was carried a good part of the way and she tramped all around with that wretched little Lolla, when she thought Lolla wanted to help her get me away. So I'm going, and Bessie shall stay here and rest" "Don't, make no difference to me," said Andrew "Let the other girls come along with us, if you like, Miss Eleanor. And you can stay hind here with the one that stays to rest. See!"
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