The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge

or

The Hermit of Moonlight Falls

by Laura Lee Hope, 1921
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CHAPTER I

JUST FUN

"Did you ever see a more wonderful day?"

The four Outdoor Girls, in Mollie Billette's touring car and with
Mollie herself at the wheel, were at the present moment rushing wildly
over a dusty country road at the rate of thirty miles an hour.

Grace Ford was sitting in front with Mollie, while Betty Nelson and
Amy Blackford "sprawled," to use Mollie's sarcastic and slightly
exaggerated description, "all over the tonneau."

"You look as if you had never done a real day's work in your life,"
said Mollie, with a disapproving glance over her shoulder at the girls
in the tonneau.

"We never have," returned quiet Amy, with a grin.

"And we are proud of it," added Betty, as she defiantly settled her