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The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge - or, the Hermit of Moonlight Falls by Laura Lee Hope
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proviso that she was to go with them. This they were only too glad to
have, and a few minutes later the lodge hummed with excitement and
preparation once more. To the Outdoor Girls, active and fun-loving by
nature, to be quiet for a few days was nothing short of torture. So now,
even though there was still more than a little fear of the "Thing" in
their hearts, they found relief in the promise of adventure.

They put up some sandwiches and fruit in a basket in case they were not
able to get home by noon. Then they locked the door of the little lodge
and started down the steps. They hesitated before starting into the woods,
and Mollie had a happy thought.

"We can go part of the way along the road," she said. "And then there is a
path that leads directly through to the head of the falls."

The celerity with which they accepted this suggestion seemed funny to them
afterward, but at the time they had other things to think about. Mostly
they were wondering if they would really be able to hold on to their nerve
long enough to see the adventure through.

"I wish," said Betty wistfully, as she had wished so many times of late,
"that the boys were here. They could help us out so beautifully." And she
sighed, for when she spoke of "the boys," she always thought of one boy
most--and that one was Allen.

"Well, there's no use wishing for what can't possibly happen," Grace was
saying, when there came a whistle so clear and penetrating that it made
them jump--then another, and another. Was it just that they were nervous
or was there really something peculiarly familiar in the sound? At any
rate they stopped and turned around to see who the whistlers could be.
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