Accordingly the girls "watched their step," and for some distance followed
Mollie uncomplainingly. Then, as there seemed no sign of their getting
anywhere, Grace started to protest.

"Say, do you suppose she has any idea where she is going?" the latter
asked of Betty in a tone that was designed to reach Mollie's ear. But
before she could say anything more, Mollie herself swung jubilantly round
upon them.

"Here we are, girls!" she cried. "Now see if you ever saw anything so
pretty in all your lives."

Once more the girls stood spellbound by the natural beauty of the scene.
As they walked they had become more and more conscious of the roaring
noise made by rushing water, and now, ascending a small rise of ground,
they came full upon the majestic beauty of Moonlight Falls.

The falls fell full thirty feet, and at the foot of it the river was
churned into swirling, liquid foam that whirled around and around again in
a sort of mad race and then went rushing off down the river in a shower of
lacy spray.

It was wildly inspiring, exhilarating, and the girls thrilled with a
strange new emotion as they watched. It was so free, so gloriously
unchained!

"There is our swimming pool over there," Mollie said, raising her voice to
make it heard above the roar of the water. "You see there is a sort of
little back eddy below the falls and to one side of it, and right there