Mollie!"
Luckily for Mollie's suicidal stubbornness, the great tree had been
halted far a moment in its downward plunge by some particularly heavy
foliage and branches, but the girls could see that it was only a
matter of seconds until the giant should tear itself loose and come
plunging down upon them.
And still Mollie fumbled with levers in a vain and foolish attempt to
save her beloved car at the risk of her own life.
Betty had just jumped upon the running board in a wild attempt to drag
her chum from the car when suddenly help came to them from an
unexpected quarter.
An elderly man came running from the woods, evidently attracted by
their excited cries. He gave one look at the toppling tree, even now
tearing itself loose from the impeding branches, another at the
machine with the two girls still in it, and then, with a speed and
decision which seemed to belie his age, went to the rescue.
"Come-- help me push!" he cried to Amy and Grace, who were still
standing dumbly in the middle of the road. A moment later he had
thrown himself with all his might against the machine, striving to
push it out of the path of the falling tree.
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