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The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge; Or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls

by Laura Lee Hope

Pages
about 144
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
2.6 h at 250 wpm
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From the opening

For a moment the Outdoor Girls sat fascinated, paralyzed, without the power to move a muscle. Then suddenly Grace seemed galvanized to action, She leaned toward Mollie, grasping the steering wheel of the motionless car frantically.

“For heaven’s sake, Mollie, get out of the way! Start the car!” she screamed.

But with Grace’s scream, Betty had come to her senses and had scrambled out of the car, dragging the still paralyzed Amy after her.

“Grace, get out! Mollie, are you crazy?” she shouted wildly. “You’ll be killed!!”

Automatically Grace started to clamber to the road, but Mollie still fussed with brakes and levers, her lips in a tight line, her eyes blazing.

“Something’s wrong! but I’ll get her started,” she muttered over and over to herself while Betty raged at her from the road.

“Get out! get out!” fumed the Little Captain, “Jump, or I’ll come after you and we’ll both be killed. Mollie!”

Luckily for Mollie’s suicidal stubbornness, the great tree had been halted far a moment in its downward plunge by some particularly heavy foliage and branches, but the girls could see that it was only a matter of seconds until the giant should tear itself loose and come plunging down upon them.

And still Mollie fumbled with levers in a vain and foolish attempt to save her beloved car at the risk of her own life.

Betty had just jumped upon the running board in a wild attempt to drag her chum from the car when suddenly help came to them from an unexpected quarter.

An elderly man came running from the woods, evidently attracted by their excited cries. He gave one look at the toppling tree, even now tearing itself loose from the impeding branches, another at the machine with the two girls still in it, and then, with a speed and decision which seemed to belie his age, went to the rescue.

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