"I only know it was
horrible."
Then quite suddenly and without warning Grace broke down and cried.
CHAPTER XV
WILD ROSES
"We will go into the house," Mrs. Irving answered to their concerted
cry of "What shall we do?" "Whatever it was that has frightened us has
disappeared now, and we shall certainly be safer inside the house than
out here. Come on, girls, I have the key."
And so, leaving the cars where they were, the girls approached the
house with shaking knees and hearts that hammered their fear aloud.
The Outdoor Girls were ordinarily afraid of nothing real and human,
but to be held up at the point of a pistol would unnerve almost any
one, and the struggle the girls had made not to give way to their
fears at the time had made them more nervous still. And this thing
that had startled them now, added to what had gone before, seemed a
little more than could be borne. It seemed, in fact, like nothing
human.
Mrs. Irving turned the key in the lock, opened the door and stepped
inside the dark place, motioning to the girls to follow her.
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