Irving wanted to hear all about it,
and Betty told them what had happened, her account interrupted by
hysterical laughter.
But when she came to the pepper gun, the girls' expression of utter
bewilderment changed to admiration of Betty's quick thought and
quicker action.
"Why, Betty," cried Amy, incredulously, "I don't see how you ever had
the courage to do it. Why, that man might have shot you!"
"He probably would have if I hadn't got him first," said Betty,
half-way between laughter and tears. "It was taking an awfully big
chance, but," with a flash of spirit, "I wasn't going to sit there
calmly and have him take away all our money. Not if I could help it."
"Betty, I think you were simply wonderful," said Mollie in heart-felt
admiration. "Why, if he had taken our money it would have completely
spoiled our trip."
"How they talk," said Grace hysterically. "Any one would think it was
only the trip that mattered when we might very easily have been
killed."
This remark served to bring Mrs. Irving to a realization of the
present, and she suggested that they start on again.
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