"And we haven't had
anything to eat since breakfast."
"What with highway robbers and sheep," laughed Betty, as she started
the engine, "we shall be lucky if we get there at all."
"Oh, Betty, if you love me don't mention that awful highwayman again,"
begged Grace, looking uneasily into the shadows of the wood. "I don't
want 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.
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