The other girls followed suit and so overwhelmed their rescuer
that he seemed quite embarrassed and looked around nervously as if for
some means of escape.
Betty, seeing his embarrassment, was about to take pity upon him when
something happened that they had not bargained for. It began to rain,
not gently, but in a deluge, taking the girls completely by surprise.
Instinctively they turned toward the car, but Mollie suddenly began to
laugh in a half-hysterical manner.
"This is what I call fun," she said. "Engine dead, caught in the rain,
and I've even left the side curtains at home! I guess we're in for it,
girls."
CHAPTER III
THE QUEER LITTLE MAN
While the girls stood looking wildly at each other their unknown
rescuer seemed suddenly galvanized to action.
"This won't do at all!" he cried, raising both hands to his bald head
which was by this time very wet and more shiny than ever. "You will
get your death of cold, young ladies, you surely will. You must come
with me. Here, right along this path I have a cottage--" All the time
he was talking he was hustling them fussily ahead of him, for all the
world like some old hen with a brood of chickens.
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