to have any more thrills like that as long as I live."

"Let's hope we won't," said Betty fervently.

"It's a pity there is no telephone along this road--we could notify the
folks at Deepdale," remarked Mollie.

"Humph, if we did that they might get so scared that they'd send for us to
come home," came from Amy.

"That's so!" came from the other Outdoor Girls quickly.

"Well, as I said before, no more thrills like that for yours truly,"
repeated Grace.

But little did the girls know that in the weeks to follow they would have
more and more startling thrills than they had ever experienced before.




Chapter XIV

Nothing Human



They might have reached Wild Rose Lodge before dusk, in spite of Grace's
gloomy prediction, if everything had gone well then. But it seemed that
the evil genius of bad luck was not yet through with them.