from a hollow ahead.

"Where?" asked Cora, purposely misunderstanding Bess.

"Here!" called Cecilia, who, with sudden resolve, had snatched the
stick from Cora's hand, and now darted forward.

She went straight for the spring.




CHAPTER III

"NO BOYS!"


Such shouting and such laughing!

There, hidden in the thicket near the spring, were discovered Jack
Kimball and Walter Pennington, while the chuckles and other noises
emerging from mysterious parts of the wood indicated the presence
of human beings, although the sounds had a queer similarity to
that made by furry beasts.

"Oh, Clip! Spare me!" called Jack, as Cecilia actually undertook
to punish physically the offending young man. "I really did not
think you would be scared - in fact, I had an idea you were scare-
immune "