The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge - or, the Hermit of Moonlight Falls by Laura Lee Hope
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"That little Turk of a sister of yours has done it again," she cried,
turning to Mollie, while Betty and Amy began to laugh. "You just wait till I catch her. I'll get my candy back if I have to--spank her," this last with a fierce scowl. Betty put an arm about her excited chum, led her over to the swing and put her down in it. "By the time you caught Dodo there wouldn't be any of your candy left," she said, adding soothingly: "Never mind, honey. We will get you some more if we have to take up a collection." "Makes me feel like an orphan's home," grumbled Grace, but she laughed nevertheless with the rest and immediately forgot both her candy and Dodo in renewed excitement over Wild Rose Lodge. "Just where is this place, Mollie?" asked Amy. "What is it called?" "Oh, that's the very best part of it," said Mollie, with a mysterious smile. "It has the most wonderful, most romantic name. Come closer while I whisper it--Moonlight Falls. There, isn't that a real name for a place?" "Wild Rose Lodge at Moonlight Falls," sighed Grace ecstatically. "If we don't have a wildly romantic time in a place with a name like that, it will be our own fault." "But we will have to have a chaperon--" Amy was beginning when Betty interrupted her eagerly. "I have fixed that," she said, and while they all looked in astonishment |
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