"I never saw anything so wonderful in all my life! Oh, girls,
I'm glad I came!"
CHAPTER XVI
THE WHIRLPOOL
All the spirit and joy of the woods seemed to have entered into the
Outdoor Girls. For the next half hour they romped in the woods and the
beautiful flowers for all the world like little children whose first
glimpse it was of the country.
They took down their hair and made wreaths of wild roses for crowns,
and when, faces flushed with exercise and fun, they had finished, one
might easily have mistaken them for real fairies come to life.
"But I want to see the river," Betty called to them, stopping once
more to listen to the rhythmic sound of splashing water. "Come on,
girls. It can't be more than a few hundred feet away, even though we
can't see it for the bushes. Lead on, Mollie Billette, I wouldst hie
me hence."
But when Mollie laughingly obeyed and started into the woods, Amy held
back.
"What's the matter?" Grace asked, turning to her curiously.
"I-- I was just thinking," stammered Amy, ashamed of her own weakness,
"about last night.
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