They wanted more than they had wanted anything in
a very long time to find Professor Dempsey and tell him the joyful
news that his sons were alive.
"I'm horribly afraid of him at night," Mollie confided, as they
started out at last, "but in the daytime I am only sorry for him."
"Do you think we shall find him, Will?" asked Amy, with a helpless
little look into Will's self-reliant young face. "I do want to so
much."
Will looked down at her with an expression that said to any one who
would read it: "I would give you anything in the world you asked for,
if I only could."
But all he really said was: "That remains to be seen. He proved
himself a rather slippery customer last night, and the chase we put up
may only serve to put him on his guard. Crazy people are tricky, you
know."
"Goodness," said Grace, looking fearfully over her shoulder. "There is
nothing in the world I am so afraid of as a crazy person."
"That's why she has always been so afraid of me, I suppose," grinned
Mollie.
"Afraid of you," said Grace, her eyebrows raised in mock surprise.
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