It was so free, so gloriously
unchained!
"There is our swimming pool over there," Mollie said, raising her
voice to make it heard above the roar of the water. "You see there is
a sort of little back eddy below the falls and to one side of it, and
right there we'll find the best swimming of our lives. But," she
added, and her voice was impressively solemn, "heaven help any one of
us who gets in the path of the falls."
"Look!" cried Amy suddenly, her voice ringing out full and clear and
startled above the uproar. "That-- thing-- over there. It is going
into the falls-- no, under them!"
"Where?" cried Mollie eagerly, leaning far forward. "Oh, yes, I see
what you mean. Oh, girls, I'm slipping!" Her voice rose to a terrified
wail. "Betty! Catch me!"
But Betty was too late. She sprang forward just in time to see Mollie
slide down the slippery bank and plunge into the maddened water of the
river!
CHAPTER XVII
THE THING
It took the girls a moment to realize the extent of the awful thing
that had happened. Then Betty, obeying her first impulse, raised her
hands above her head as though to dive, but Amy screamed to her to
stop.
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