While the girls looked about them wildly for a means of escape Mollie
began to laugh hysterically.
"We have a visitor," she announced in a strangled voice. "And he is
between us and the only door in the place. Come on, girls, let's see
who it is."
They stepped out into the cluttered living room and came face to face
with a young man who seemed more startled at seeing them than they had
been at sight of him.
"Well, I'll be jiggered!" he exclaimed, and at sound of the
commonplace phrase the girls could have hugged the speaker in relief.
Also they felt a rather hysterical desire to laugh long and foolishly.
As it was, the stranger stood staring at the girls and the girls at
him so long that the funny side of the situation struck Betty and she
really did begin to laugh.
"We haven't the slightest idea who you are," she told the astonished
young man. "But I am sure of one thing, and that is that we were never
so glad to see any one in all our lives as we are to see you."
CHAPTER X
HURRAH FOR ALLEN
The young man stared for a moment longer.
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