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"Right under you. Girls! you want to be careful. I've slid down a bank and am standing on what appears to be a narrow shelf along the face of this bank, or hill. And the snow isn't drifted here. Come down." "Oh, I wouldn't dare!" cried Lluella. "If the place will afford us any shelter from this awful wind, why not?" demanded Helen. "We might try it." "How deep are you down, Jennie?" asked Madge.
But the majority of the girls were for setting off at once toward the sound they thought they had heard in the midst of the storm. Again and again they shouted. At last they stopped, all sorely frightened, Lluella in tears. "What will we do now?" gasped Belle. "We'd better go back to that tree. We were safe there," muttered Heavy, her teeth chattering.
"Just think, almost the whole universe is filled with just atmosphere and your head, Lluella." "That's not pretty, dear," remarked The Fox, pinching Heavy. "Don't be nasty to your playmates." "Well, I've got to eat," groaned Heavy. "If you knew how long it seemed from luncheon to supper time "
"Only there's no scratchy and smelly balsam for beds, and our clothes won't get all stuck up with chewing gum," said Lluella Fairfax. "Chewing gum! Hear the girl," scoffed Ann Hicks. "You mean spruce gum." "Isn't that about the same?" demanded Lluella, with some spirit. "You chew it, don't you?" "I don't know. I wouldn't chew spruce gum unless it was first properly prepared.
"Funny we should all think with such unanimity," scoffed Ruth. "That was certainly a very able-bodied spirit There!" Again the cry came brokenly through the storm. "Somebody lost like ourselves," said Lluella, with a shiver. "And he sees the light of our fire," Jennie Stone urged. "We must help, whoever it is," Ruth cried. "Shout, girls! Maybe he wants to know the way "
The lights in the other dormitory shone brightly and the lamps around the open space, which the buildings of Briarwood surrounded, glimmered in the dark. Voices came up to them from the walks; but soon these ceased, for the girls were all indoors. The campus was deserted. "Don't let's light the lamp," said Lluella. "I can tell stories better in the dark." "And ghost stories, too," laughed Helen.
"Not from this end of the cave, at any rate. I tell you, tons and tons of snow fell into its mouth." "But you know the other way out, Ruthie?" urged Lluella, half inclined to cry. "I think so," returned the girl of the Red Mill. "Then just hunt for the way," said Belle, firmly. "If it has stopped snowing I want to go home." "Don't be a baby, Belle," advised her brother Ralph.
"We're a nice lot of 'babes in the woods'," sniffed Belle. "I wish we'd let the boys come with us," said Helen. "Won't they have the laugh on us?" observed Madge. "I don't care if they do," mourned Lluella. "I wish they were here to help us home." "Come, come!" said Ruth, cheerfully. "We ought to be able to help ourselves. Here is a big tree with drooping branches.
"But when I got back with the pencil in my hand still, Belle come near getting me into trouble." "Uh-huh!" admitted Belle, nodding. "How?" asked somebody. "She just whispered right out loud, 'Lluella, that is your pencil and you know it! And I had to say right off, 'It isn't, and I didn't! Now, what could I have said else? But it was an awful fib, I s'pose." The assembled girls laughed.
Bob Steele, with Lluella and Helen before him, dropped over the verge of the platform and their toboggan began to whiz down the pathway, as Jennie plumped down upon the remaining toboggan. "Come on, Ruthie! You're a good little thing to wait for me and I guess Tom Cameron didn't like it much, either? He wanted you." "Nonsense, Jennie," returned Ruth, with a laugh. "What does it matter?
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