They did reach home somehow and there they sat until late into the
night, trying to find some explanation for the thing they had seen,
striving to think up some plan for hunting it down until finally Mrs.
Irving sent them to bed.
That did not do very much good, for they lay awake and talked until
the first rays of sunlight crept into the windows. Then they said
goodnight and sank into a sleep of exhaustion.
For three days after the episode the girls never went far from the
house on foot. They would take the cars and spin down the open road,
but a sort of horror of the supernatural kept them from venturing into
the woods again.
But when the fourth day dawned the fright of their moonlight
experience had begun to wear off and they were beginning to feel
ashamed of their fear.
Having a little of this in her mind, Mollie gave voice to it at the
breakfast table.
"I must say," she began, buttering a piece of bread energetically,
"that it isn't like us Outdoor Girls to let anything scare us into
staying near the house. Why, I declare, I don't believe there is one
of us who would dare poke her nose past that rose bush in front of the
porch after sundown.
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